Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver by Stephen A Geller

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Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver is a practical source of information to understand the diseases of the liver, with particular emphasis on the histopathology of those diseases. The book offers clear guidelines for the pathologist to recognize and diagnose a full spectrum of liver disorders. It progresses from the basics--including technical considerations, liver anatomy, and examination methods--then provides essential guidelines for recognizing and assessing specific hepatic conditions. In the completely updated Second Edition, the authors updated the content on transplantation pathology and provided new chapters on immunopathology and molecular pathology of liver diseases. A companion Website will provide the fully searchable text, over 700 additional full-color images of common and rare entities, and a test bank that is ideal for board exam preparation.

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Reviewer:Maura F. O'Neil, M.D. (University of Kansas Medical Center)
Description:Part of the Biopsy Interpretation Series, the book focuses entirely on liver biopsies and is an update to the 2004 first edition.
Purpose:This is not intended as a comprehensive liver pathology textbook, but rather to serve as a practical handbook for the interpretation of liver biopsies. The focus of the book is on the practical and it indeed serves as a useful guide to the liver biopsy interpretation of most hepatic disorders.
Audience:The target audience includes both novice and experienced surgical pathologists who interpret liver biopsies. The authors have connections with two of the world leaders in hepatopathology and they themselves have become leading experts in hepatopathology.
Features:Numerous high-quality images and tables fill each chapter. The brief text in outline format is easy to read and provides quick reference for numerous hepatic disorders. Extremely useful is the last chapter on differential diagnosis and common liver biopsy problems, which compares two histologically similar entities at a time and includes tables that compare and contrast the key histological differences. There is so much overlap of histopathologic changes seen in various liver diseases that these tables are very useful in highlighting important differences at a glance. One criticism is that although the chapter on chronic hepatitis briefly discusses the many grading and staging systems, it does not include all the grading and staging systems in tabular format. Since the grading and staging of liver biopsies is a common request, and differentinstitutions employ different scoring systems, the inclusion of all these scoring systems would have been useful.
Assessment:This is an extremely practical and well organized handbook for the interpretation of the majority of liver biopsies encountered. This welcome addition to the Biopsy Interpretation Series won't sit for long on a pathologist's bookshelf. It will become one of the select few books that sit right next to the microscope for frequent quick reference.

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