Differential Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology Tumors and their Mimickers (A Volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series)

An essential resource to solve challenging cases and sign out with confidence! An all-new volume in the popular Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology series, Differential Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology: Tumors and Their Mimickers is a crucial foundation text for residents and pathologists. Packed with information that helps you quickly differentiate entities that have similar, overlapping histopathologic features, it guides you through the decision-making process, providing a road map to the main differential diagnostic considerations that must be addressed when formulating a diagnosis. Practical and affordable, this resource is ideal for study and review, as well as for everyday surgical pathology practice. 

Key Features

Key features of this practical text include: 

• Concise summaries of clinical and pathologic findings that guide you through the decision-making process, with coverage of most common and uncommon differential diagnoses in surgical pathology. 

• Numerous high-quality illustrations of similar-looking but distinct entities for easy side-by-side comparison. 

• Illustrations for each entity accompanied by a clear, concise histopathologic descriptions that highlight how they are distinguished from one another. 

• A consistent, user-friendly format and at-a-glance boxes and tables throughout the text, as well as selected references for further study. 

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. 

1. Introduction
2. Developmental and Congenital Conditions
3. Non-infectious Papillary Lesions
4. Bacterial, Viral, Fungal and Other Infectious Conditions
5. Fibrous, Gingival, Lipocytic Nodules and Miscellaneous Tumors
6. Vascular, Neural and Muscle Tumors
7. Ulcerative and Inflammatory Conditions
8. Granulomatous, Immune-mediated, and Autoimmune and Conditions
9. Pigmented Lesions
10. Reactive Keratotic Lesions (Nonleukoplakias)
11. Leukoplakia, Oral Dysplasia and Squamous Cell Carcinoma
12. Inflammatory Salivary Gland Lesions
13. Salivary Gland Neoplasms
14. Odontogenic Cysts
15. Odontogenic Tumors
16. Intrabony Nonodontogenic Cysts, Cystlike Lesions and Miscellaneous Entities
17. Nonodontogenic Intra-osseous Lesions
18. Hematolymphoid Tumors of the Oral Cavity

Author Information

By Fadi W Abdul-Karim, MD, MEd, Professor of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; Vice Chair for Education, Department of Pathology, Robert J Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio and Charles Sturgis, MD, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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