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A concise guide for practising vets on anatomic pathology, this book aids the reader's understanding of pathology, thus allowing optimisation of diagnostic tests.
Anatomic Pathology for Veterinary Clinicians will teach practitioners how to:
- take quality biopsy samples to get better results
- understand histopathology reports
- know when additional tests are warranted and are likely to give clinically useful information.
Sommario
Abbreviations
- Submission of samples
- Post-mortem examinations and gross pathology
- Biopsy types with regards to tumour grading and margin assessment
- Gastrointestinal and liver biopsies
- Special stains, immunohistochemistry and additional testing
- Oncology: recognizing features of neoplasia and of malignancy
- Oncology: histological descriptions, grading of neoplasms and additional prognostication
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Melanie Dobromylskyj works as a diagnostic histopathologist for Finn Pathologists, a large commercial diagnostic laboratory based in the UK, and covers both first opinion and referral practice cases, predominantly canine and feline.
