2nd Edition

Biopsy Pathology in Colorectal Disease, 2Ed

422 Pages
by CRC Press

422 Pages
by CRC Press

Biopsy Pathology in Colorectal Disease shows how the practising pathologist can extract the maximum of diagnostic value from biopsies of the colon, rectum and anus. With the advances in colonoscopic mucosal biopsy techniques these are amongst the most frequently encountered specimens in hospital histopathology departments. This new edition provides practising pathologists and those in allied... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Normal features
3. Assessment of abnormalities: diagnostic signposts
4. Infective colitis
5. Ulcerative colitis
6. Crohn's disease
7. Ileoanal pouch pathology
8. Pseudomembranous colitis
9. Microscopic - colitis collagenous colitis, lymphocytic colitis and their variants
10. Ischaemic colitis
11. Iatrogenic disease
12. The differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
13. Disorders of motility
14. Neoplasia in the colon and rectum and its classification
15. Polyps
16. The diagnosis of malignancy
17. Dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease
18. Malignant tumours
19. Anal biopsy
20. Miscellaneous conditions

Biography

Ian Talbot is a consulting pathologist at St. Marks and Northwick Park Hospitals and Professor of Histopatholgy at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.
Ashley Price is a consulting pathologist at Northwick Park and St Marks Hospitals and Professor of Gastrointestinal Pathology at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.
Manuel Salto-Tellez is Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, at the National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant Pathologist at the National University Hospital in Singapore.

"This book fulfils the needs of all clinicians and pathologists having to deal with various colorectal conditions, both common and rare, that are looking for an expert guidance for the diagnosis."


Dr P Kitsanta, ACP News

"This book is a must-keep and a worthy successor to the first edition ... One would hope that all surgical pathologists, whether practitioner or academic, residents or fellows, would read this superb publication."


Gregory Y. Lauwers, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine