Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach

1. Lung Anatomy

2. Optimal Processing of Diagnostic Lung Specimens

3. Computed Tomography of Diffuse Lung Diseases and Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

4. Developmental and Pediatric Lung Disease

5. Acute Lung Injury

6. Lung Infections

7. Chronic Diffuse Lung Diseases

8. Non-neoplastic Pathology of the Large and Small Airways

9. Pneumoconioses

10. Pulmonary Vasculitis and Pulmonary Hemorrhage

11. Pulmonary Hypertension

12. Pathology of Lung Transplantation

13. Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Lung

14. Sarcomas and Sarcomatoid Neoplasms of the Lung and Pleura

15. Pulmonary Pathology: Hematolymphoid Disorders

16. Non-neuroendocrine Carcinomas (Excluding "Sarcomatoid" Carcinoma) and Salivary Gland Analogue Tumors of the Lung

17. Metastatic Tumors in the Lung: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis

18. Pseudoneoplastic Lesions of the Lungs and Pleura

19. Benign and borderline tumors of the lungs and pleura

20. Malignant and Borderline Mesothelial Tumors of the Pleura

Appendix: Miscellaneous Distinctive Histopathologic Findings

Index

 

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