Color Atlas and Synopsis: Gastrointestinal Pathology

The only handy field guide to gastrointestinal pathology, with easy access to over 1,000 GI pathology images and diagnostic assistance

Noted authority and experienced diagnostician, Shu-Yuan Xiao, MD, has developed the Color Atlas and Synopsis: Gastrointestinal Pathology, the first practical field guide for gastrointestinal pathology designed exclusively to aid and support faster, more accurate diagnoses.

Designed for pathology residents, established practicing pathologists, and clinicians who need quick access to information on this subdiscipline, this handy, affordable guide features more than 1,000 high-quality, full-color pathology images. It leads readers through the differential diagnosis process and helps them differentiate diseases with overlapping histologic features and render descriptive diagnoses to assist the clinician in providing the best possible patient care.

Organized by anatomic sites, easy-to-follow, step-by-step chapters include several on disorders that involve the gastrointestinal tract in general, histologic patterns, and finally discussion of conditions that make up the differential diagnosis,. This concise book addresses some of the most frequently encountered clinical queries faced by the pathologist and highlights hard-to-diagnose diseases.

• An attractively priced hardcover formatted for easy access to critical information – not a standard dense pathology textbook
• Over 1,000 high-quality slide images with detailed and relevant annotations for quick review
• Pragmatic approaches to diagnostic issues
• Description of singular and complex relationships between histologic patterns and underlying pathologic processes

Table of Contents

Part One General Topics
Chapter 1 Pattern Recognition: Toxic-Ischemic Pattern of Mucosal Injury
Chapter 2 GI Biopsies in Transplant Settings
Chapter 3 Autoimmune Enterocolitis
Chapter 4 Crohn Disease
Chapter 5 Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors and Other Mesenchymal Tumors
Chapter 6 Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
Chapter 7 Molecular and Other Ancillary Tests for GI Tumors

Part Two Esophagus
Chapter 8 Inflammatory Lesions of the Esophagus
Chapter 9 Barrett Esophagus and Adenocarcinoma
Chapter 10 Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Other Miscellaneous Malignancies of the Esophagus
Chapter 11 Mesenchymal Tumors and Tumor-like Lesions of the Esophagus

Part Three Stomach
Chapter 12 Gastritis and Related Conditions
Chapter 13 Reactive (Chemical) Gastropathy
Chapter 14 Hypertrophic Gastropathy
Chapter 15 Gastric Polyps
Chapter 16 Dysplasia and Adenocarcinoma
Chapter 17 Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumors and Other Rare Tumors

Part Four Small Bowel
Chapter 18 Celiac Disease and Related Conditions
Chapter 19 Small-Bowel Involvement in Ulcerative Colitis
Chapter 20 Small-Bowel Infections
Chapter 21 Small-Bowel Polyps and Nodules
Chapter 22 Small-Bowel Adenocarcinoma
Chapter 23 Other Small-Bowel Tumors

Part Five Appendix
Chapter 24 Appendicitis
Chapter 25 Neoplasms of the Appendix

Part Six Colon
Chapter 26 Ulcerative Colitis and Complications of Ileal Pouch–Anal Anastomosis
Chapter 27 Surveillance Biopsies of Inflammatory Bowel Disease for Dysplasia
Chapter 28 Infectious and Other Colitis
Chapter 29 Colon Polyps
Chapter 30 Colorectal Carcinomas

Part Seven Anus
Chapter 31 Inflammatory Lesions
Chapter 32 HPV-Associated Squamous Lesions