Practical hepatic pathology : a diagnostic approach /
Saxena, Romil,editor.
A volume in the popular Pattern Recognition Series, Practical Hepatic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach features completely updated and reorganized content, resulting in a truly practical guide to understanding liver pathology. Dr. Romil Saxena presents interpretation of liver biopsies according to a pattern-based approach that begins with recognition of the predominant histological pattern of injury, followed by identification of secondary features and appropriate work-up that lead you away from pitfalls to the best diagnosis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Microscopic anatomy, basic terms, and elemental lesions -- Clinical features of liver disease -- Laboratory tests in liver disease -- Investigative imaging of the liver -- Liver diseases of childhood -- Medical genetics and biochemistry in diagnosis and management -- Histologic patterns of metabolic liver diseases -- Liver in Wilson disease -- Liver disease in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency -- Liver disease in cystic fibrosis -- Liver disease in iron overload -- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease -- Acute viral hepatitis -- Hepatitis B -- Hepatitis c -- Chronic hepatitis : grading and staging -- Human immunodeficiency virus infection of the liver -- Nonviral infections of the liver -- Hepatic granulomas : differential diagnosis -- Hepatic sarcoidosis -- Autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndromes -- Metabolism of drugs and xenobiotics -- Liver injury due to drugs and herbal agents -- Alcohol-induced liver disease -- Fibrocystic liver diseases -- Primary biliary cholangitis -- Primary sclerosing cholangitis -- Loss of intrahepatic bile ducts -- Intrahepatic cholestasis -- Vascular disorders of the liver -- Premalignant and early malignant hepatocellular lesions in chronic hepatitis/cirrhosis -- Benign hepatocellular tumors -- Hepatocellular carcinoma -- Benign and malignant tumors of bile ducts -- Liver tumors of childhood -- Miscellaneous liver tumors and tumor-like lesions -- Clinical aspects of liver transplantation -- Pathology of liver transplantation -- Biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma -- Regression of liver fibrosis : from myth to reality -- Cirrhosis : a term in need of a makeover.
Online resource; title from pdf title page (ClinicalKey, viewed February 13, 2017).
ClinicalKey
A volume in the popular Pattern Recognition Series, Practical Hepatic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach features completely updated and reorganized content, resulting in a truly practical guide to understanding liver pathology. Dr. Romil Saxena presents interpretation of liver biopsies according to a pattern-based approach that begins with recognition of the predominant histological pattern of injury, followed by identification of secondary features and appropriate work-up that lead you away from pitfalls to the best diagnosis.
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