"Lester (pathology, Harvard Medical School) provides a manual of
surgical pathology procedures organized by body region, along with
information on processing, the lab, reports, safety, errors, and
special studies. This edition has new and updated tables for
immunochemistry, histologic appearance of viruses and fungi, and
the optical properties of commonly seen noncellular material; the
recommendations for American Joint Commission on Cancer
classification and guidelines for the assessment of critical
pathologic features; new tables for central nervous system tumors,
lung carcinomas, fibroblastic/myofibroblastic lesions of the
breast, signet ring cell carcinomas, metastatic carcinomas to the
abdomen, and others; and evaluation of microsatellite instability
in colon carcinomas. Online access to the full text and abstracts
is included."
- Book News, Inc.
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