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Neuropathology
A Volume in the Series: Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology
- 3rd Edition - October 17, 2022
- Editors: Richard A. Prayson, Gabrielle A. Yeaney
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 1 3 4 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 2 2 2 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 2 2 2 8 - 5
Now fully revised to include recent advances in the field, the third edition of Neuropathology, a volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology series, is an essential… Read more
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A consistent, user-friendly format that explores each entity's clinical features, pathologic features (gross and microscopic), ancillary studies, differential diagnoses, and prognostic and therapeutic considerations.
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A focus on specific features of selected neoplastic and non-neoplastic entities, including broad and in-depth differential diagnoses.
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Review of normal histology before examining abnormal findings, enabling you to conveniently compare their characteristics in one place at one time.
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Clinical information on treatment and prognosis, enabling you to better understand the clinical implications of the diagnosis.
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Nearly 600 full-color, high-quality illustrations with extensive figure legends, as well as abundant boxes and tables throughout.
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Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
What’s NEW in this edition:
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Advances in molecular diagnostic testing and its capabilities and limitations, including targeted/personalized medicine.
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New diagnostic biomarkers and their utility in differential diagnosis, newly described variants, and new histologic entities.
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The latest TNM staging and WHO classification systems.
- Cover Image
- Other books in this series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Overview of Central Nervous System Anatomy and Histology
- GROSS ANATOMY
- CELL TYPES
- TISSUE ORGANIZATION
- FEATURES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
- NORMAL AGING AND COMMON ARTIFACTS
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 2 Vascular Disease
- CAUSES OF REDUCED BLOOD FLOW OR OXYGENATION
- CAUSES OF CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
- Cavernous Angioma
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 3 Trauma
- SCALP INJURY
- SKULL FRACTURE
- EPIDURAL HEMORRHAGE
- SUBDURAL HEMORRHAGE
- SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE
- CEREBRAL CONTUSION
- DIFFUSE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
- GUNSHOT WOUNDS
- PEDIATRIC HEAD INJURY
- SEQUELAE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
- SPINAL CORD INJURY
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 4 Congenital Malformations, Perinatal Diseases, and Tumor Predisposition Syndromes
- BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND MALFORMATIONS: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- MALFORMATIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- Chapter 5 Demyelinating Disorders
- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER
- MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
- PML AND PRIMARY CNS LYMPHOMA AS DIAGNOSTIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR ACUTE/TUMEFACTIVE DEMYELINATING LESIONS PROMPTING BIOPSY
- MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN ANTIBODY DISEASE
- MACROSCOPIC FEATURES OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AT AUTOPSY
- MICROSCOPIC FEATURES OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AT AUTOPSY
- OVERVIEW OF LEUKODYSTROPHIES
- ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY
- METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY
- GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY (KRABBE DISEASE)
- ALEXANDER DISEASE
- CANAVAN DISEASE
- PELIZAEUS-MERZBACHER DISEASE
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 6 Neurodegenerative Diseases
- DEMENTIA AND AGE-RELATED PATHOLOGIES
- PARKINSONIAN AND ATYPICAL PARKINSONIAN SYNDROMES
- MOTOR NEURON DISEASES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 7 Infections
- BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
- FUNGAL INFECTIONS
- VIRAL INFECTIONS
- PARASITIC INFECTIONS
- SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 8 Metabolic and Toxic Disorders
- LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES
- PEROXISOMAL DISORDERS
- MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS
- DISORDERS OF AMINO ACID METABOLISM AND MISCELLANEOUS INHERITED METABOLIC DISORDERS
- CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF GLYCOSYLATION (CARBOHYDRATE-DEFICIENT GLYCOPROTEIN SYNDROMES)
- ACQUIRED METABOLIC DISORDERS
- NUTRITIONAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS
- NEUROTOXICOLOGY
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 9 Glial and Glioneuronal Tumors
- DIFFUSE ASTROCYTOMAS
- PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA
- SUBEPENDYMAL GIANT CELL ASTROCYTOMA
- PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA
- ASTROBLASTOMA
- DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE ASTROCYTOMA/GANGLIOGLIOMA
- CHORDOID GLIOMA
- ANGIOCENTRIC GLIOMA
- OLIGODENDROGLIOMA
- EPENDYMOMA
- MYXOPAPILLARY EPENDYMOMA
- SUBEPENDYMOMA
- GANGLIOGLIOMA AND GANGLION CELL TUMORS
- DYSEMBROPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR
- PAPILLLARY GLIONEURONAL TUMOR
- ROSETTE-FORMING GLIONEURONAL TUMOR
- OTHER NEURONAL-GLIAL TUMORS
- NASAL GLIAL HETEROTOPIA
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 10 Non-glial Tumors
- MENINGIOMAS
- MESENCHYMAL TUMORS
- HEMANGIOBLASTOMA
- PRIMARY MELANOCYTIC LESIONS
- CHORDOMA
- CHOROID PLEXUS TUMORS
- NEUROCYTOMA
- EMBRYONAL TUMORS
- SCHWANNOMAS
- LYMPHOMA
- HISTIOCYTIC TUMORS
- CYSTS
- GERM CELL TUMORS
- PITUITARY TUMORS
- PINEAL TUMORS
- CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA
- PARAGANGLIOMA
- METASTASIS
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Chapter 11 Skeletal Muscle and Peripheral Nerve Disorders
- DISORDERS OF INNERVATION (DENERVATION ATROPHY)
- DISORDERS OF NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION (AUTOIMMUNE MYASTHENIA, MYASTHENIA GRAVIS)
- DISORDERS OF EXCITATION–CONTRACTION COUPLING (MUSCLE CHANNELOPATHIES)
- CORE MYOPATHIES
- DISORDERS OF THE SARCOMERE
- LATE-ONSET MYOFIBRILLAR MYOPATHY/Z-DISC DISEASES
- DISORDERS OF MECHANICAL TRANSDUCTION (MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES)
- LIMB-GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
- CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
- DISORDERS OF ENERGY METABOLISM
- MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES
- DISORDERS OF IMMUNITY (INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES)
- IMMUNE-MEDIATED NECROTIZING MYOPATHY
- DISORDERS OF IATROCHEMISTRY (TOXIC MYOPATHIES)
- INTRODUCTION TO PERIPHERAL NERVES
- SUGGESTED READINGS
- Index
- No. of pages: 624
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: October 17, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323713443
- eBook ISBN: 9780323722292
- eBook ISBN: 9780323722285
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