Scheuer's Liver Biopsy Interpretation

For more than 40 years, Scheuer's Liver Biopsy Interpretation has been the pathologist's go-to resource for help in solving diagnostic problems at the microscope. The 9th Edition brings you fully up to date in the field, with coverage of new diagnostic tools, new information on drug-induced liver injury and cytopathology, and many new high-quality illustrations. Throughout the text, you'll find technical tips, diagnostic clues, and pearls that reflect the extensive experience and insight of the late Dr. Peter Scheuer and internationally renowned author Dr. Jay Lefkowitch, making this new edition your standard bench-side guide to today's liver biopsy diagnosis.

List of contents

1 General Principles of Biopsy Assessment
2 Laboratory Techniques
3 The Normal Liver
4 Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Pathological Features
5 Biliary Disease
6 Acute Viral Hepatitis
7 Steatosis, Steatohepatitis and Related Conditions
8 Drugs and Toxins
9 Chronic Hepatitis
10 Cirrhosis
11 Neoplasms and Nodules
12 Vascular Disorders
13 Childhood Liver Disease and Metabolic Disorders
14 Disturbances of Copper and Iron Metabolism
15 The Liver in Systemic Disease and Pregnancy
16 The Liver in Organ Transplantation
17 Electron Microscopy and Other Techniques

Product details

• Authors: Jay H Lefkowitch, Jay H. Lefkowitch
• Publisher: Elsevier Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9780702055485
• ISBN: 978-0-7020-5548-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 196 mm x 254 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1156 g
• Illustrations: Approx. 316 illustrations (286 in full color)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Chirurgie, Hepatologie, Leber - Leberkrankheit