Main description:

Maintaining the first edition's unique parallel to the strategy used by pathologists and pulmonologists to arrive at a patient's diagnosis in daily practice, Diagnostic Pulmonary Pathology starts with the patient and their biopsy findings, directing the pathologist or clinician to the proper diagnosis. With many advances in pulmonary pathology, radiology, and pulmonary medicine, this new edition provides thorough updates in:

progress in classification and diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases

evolution of our understanding of pre-neoplastic lesions

technology in histopathology

molecular pathology

thoracic radiology

Written by contributing doctors who are at the forefront of recent advancements, Diagnostic Pulmonary Pathology:

is organized based on how the patient should be approached, and the patient's own projections, signs, symptoms, and disease

provides new imaging techniques and molecular diagnostic tests

investigates the new classification schemes, i.e. classification and terminology for lung neoplasms, pulmonary hypertension, and lung transplant rejection

gives coverage of the merging of radiology and pathology, including molecular imaging

Contents:

Transbronchial Biopsies: Clinical Perspective. Endobronchial and Transbronchial Biopsies. Pediatric Lung Biopsy. Interstitial Lymphocytic Infiltrates. Interstitial Fibrosis, Predominately Mature. Clinical and Radiologic Diagnosis of Interstitial Infiltrates. Interstitial and Intraalveolar Fibrosis, Preominately Immature. Intraalveolar Exudates/Inflitrates. Clinical and Radiologic Diagnosis of Intraalveolar Infiltrates and Exudates. Pulmonary Eosinophilia. Clinical Diagnosis of Pulmonary Eosinophilia. Small Airway Lesions. Pulmonary Hemorrhage. Pulmonary Hemorrhage. Clinical and Radiologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hemorrhage. Granulomas and Granulomatous Inflammation. Clinical and Radiologic Diagnosis and Types of Granulomas. Enlarged Airspaces. Pulmonary Vascular Lesions. Vasculitis. Clinical and Radiological Diagnosis of Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Diagnostic Approach to the Patient with Necrosis on Lung Biopsy. Transplant-Related Pathology. Clinical Diagnosis of Transplant-Related Problems. Intra- and Extracellular Structures. Molecular Diagnosis of Infections. Nonmalignant Versus Malignant Proliferations on Lung biopsy. Preneoplastic and Preinvasive Lesions. Clinical Diagnosis of Pulmonary Neoplasms. Radiologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Neoplasms. Nonmalignant vs. Malignant Proliferations on Pleural Biopsy. Clinical Diagnosis of Pleural Disease. Radiologic Diagnosis of Pleural Disease. Malignant Epithelial Neoplasms. Differential Diagnosis of Neuroendocrine Lung Neoplasms. Benign Epithelial Neoplasms of the Distal Lobular Unit of the Lung. Spindle-Cell Neoplasms of Lung and Pleura. Biphasic Pulmonary Neoplasms. Uncommon Endobronchial Neoplasms. Localized Pleural Tumors. Molecular Diagnostics of Pulmonary Neoplasms. Molecular Diagnostics of Pleural Neoplasms.