Specifically designed for future health care providers who will diagnose, manage, and prescribe. Focusing on practical applications of physiology, this book facilitates in-depth understanding of pathophysiological concepts as they relate to disorders commonly seen in practice and includes comprehensive pediatric and geriatric considerations.
With Histologic, Cytologic and Radiologic Correlations
An illustrated resource for diagnosis of bone and soft tissue lesions - a particular challenge due to their rarity and complexity. In addition to carefully selected histologic photographs, this unique atlas enhances standard visual information with illustrations of imaging findings, cytology, and molecular and cytogenetic information.
Intended for busy practitioners, this text provides expert guidance for resolving the real world problems pathologists face when diagnosing melanomas and other atypical pigmented lesions. It reviews each major category of atypical melanocytic lesions, including the pathology of the superficial categories of melanoma followed by a discussion of the ......
Focuses on understanding potential problems and sources of error in management of the blood bank and transfusion, how to anticipate and avoid such problems, and how to manage them if they occur. This book addresses the situations and issues faced by the clinical pathologist or other manager or staff member of the blood bank team.
Covers benign and malignant entities found in the breast including proliferative and pre-invasive epithelial lesions, invasive carcinoma, proliferative stromal and miscellaneous mesenchymal lesions, and metastatic tumors to the breast.
2020 AJN Book-of-the-Year Award Winner: Advanced Practice Nursing! Concise and well-organized, this advanced physiology and pathophysiology text promotes deep understanding of key pathophysiological concepts and relates them to major disorders commonly seen in practice. It is distinguished by its stellar organization and writing that clarifies ......
Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography
In Show Me Where It Hurts, Monica Chiu argues that graphic pathography-long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired-re-vitalizes and re-visions various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images. By the body and for the body, the medium is subversive and reparative, and it stands in ......
A comprehensive guide for the practicing pathologist and trainee. This volume provides anatomic pathologists with the essential knowledge and tools to navigate breast cases and classification systems that are commonly and uncommonly found in everyday practice. Particularly challenging topics are covered in clear prose, along with discussions on ......
Provides a comprehensive reference for interpreting body cavity fluid, respiratory, and gastrointestinal exfoliative cytopathology specimens. Generously illustrated and user-friendly, this atlas guides the reader through common and unusual non-gynaecologic and non-urinary exfoliative specimens to detect neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease.
This essential guide provides a clear, accessible review of the use of statistics in pathology studies. Spanning topics such as exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics as well as the use of comparative statistics, concordance analysis, categorical and continuous data regression analyses, count data, survival analyses, decision point ......
New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This book is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.
New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This boo is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.
How to Avoid Errors in Ordering Tests and Interpreting Results
A convenient, quick-reference guide to common errors and pitfalls in test selection and result interpretation for practitioners and trainees in all areas of clinical medicine. Authored by recognized experts and educators in laboratory medicine, it provides timely, practical guidance about what to do and what not to do for practitioners ordering or ......
Quick reference to Pathology, the basic cellular response to injuries, with succinct definitions ensuring this guide covers in 6 pages what you would usually find in 30 pages or more. This can be combined with the companion guides Pathology Systemic 1 and 2, putting these concise 6 page guides together for a solid 90 pages of information in 18 ......
Quick reference to Systemic Pathology, the study of specific organ responses to diseases, with succinct definitions ensuring this guide covers in 6 pages what you would usually find in 30 pages or more. Due to space constraints the content coverage was split into 2 guides. This guide can be combined with Pathology Systemic 2 for full coverage. ......
Quick reference to Systemic Pathology, the study of specific organ responses to diseases, with succinct definitions ensuring this guide covers in 6 pages what you would usually find in 30 pages or more. Due to space constraints the content coverage was split into 2 guides. This guide can be combined with Pathology Systemic 1 for full coverage. ......
Intended for busy practitioners, Pulmonary Pathology is a pithy, pocket-sized guide to all of the key pulmonology entities and diagnoses that pulmonologists see in daily practice. It addresses non-neoplastic conditions including Infections, Granulomatous Diseases, Acute Lung Injury, Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias, Vasculitis, Histiocytoses, ......
Based on actual cases drawn from the extensive breast pathology consultation practice at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Breast Pathology covers the full classification of breast tumours and focuses on especially challenging differential diagnoses or unusual and problematic morphologic presentations. Using a pattern-based approach, each case ......
Concentrates on the salient H&E histopathology of each entity discussed with brief descriptors of the clinical features, differential diagnosis, and relevant literature references for each entity. The book features a bulleted format with H&E illustrations to match histopathologic criteria. Helpful ancillary tests, in particular, appropriate ......
A key issue for every laboratory and individual laboratory practitioner is the assessment of risk and a working knowledge of the standards of care established for diagnostic testing via guidelines, major studies and trials. This book addresses common issues and errors seen in the laboratory management process.
The Demos Surgical Pathology Guides series presents in summary and visual form the basic knowledge base that every practising pathologist needs every working day. Series volumes cover the major speciality areas of surgical pathology, and coverage emphasises the key entities and diagnoses that pathologists will see in practice, and that they must ......
Concentrates on the salient H&E histopathology of each entity discussed with brief descriptors of the clinical features, differential diagnosis, and relevant literature references for each entity. The book features a bulleted format with H&E illustrations to match histopathologic criteria. Helpful ancillary tests, in particular, appropriate ......
An interpersonal perspective on psychopathology poses questions such as: what do people want from interpersonal interactions? This book proposes that psychopathology is closely connected to interpersonal processes. In order to treat these disorders successfully, one must first understand the person's typical interpersonal interactions.