DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY: VASCULAR

Diagnostic Pathology: Vascular offers a specific focus on vascular pathology, making it ideal for the practicing pathologist, dermatologist, pediatrician, or trainee. This easy-to-use, comprehensive reference book takes a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and boasts superior medical images - including radiology, gross pathology, and clinical photographs - on a wide variety of rare entities. This is your essential guide to understanding vascular pathology and diagnosis!

Features:
• Organ system-based approach to the diagnosis of vascular tumors includes diagnostic criteria and decision-making paradigms to rule out mimics in specific anatomic locations.
• Essential information is distilled into a bulleted format with numerous high-quality images to facilitate learning.
• "Key Facts" highlight the quick criteria needed for diagnosis or adequacy evaluation at the time of a procedure.
• Extensive clinical, radiographic, and histologic library of images of vascular lesions set in specific anatomic locations.
• Updated classification schema for vascular tumors, proliferations, and malformations modified from the currentInternational Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies and the 2013 WHO Bone and Soft Tissue Tumorbook.
• Molecular genetic characteristics section for each tumor highlights additional possible ancillary techniques that can be employed for diagnostic purposes.
• Includes the most current immunohistochemical techniques useful for characterizing specific vascular tumors and utilizing in malignancy.
• Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices.

Author
David Stockman, MD, Assistant Professor, Director of Bone and Soft Tissue / Sarcoma / Molecular Genetic Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, South Carolina; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.