Recent Advances in Histopathology

This volume draws together 13 chapters detailing current topics in histopathology, including the development and application of molecular techniques in this edition, along with the morphological assessment of tissue diagnosis, prognosis, and response to treatment. Pathologists and other clinicians from Europe discuss antibody-mediated rejection of organ allografts, the maternal death autopsy, the classification and treatment of non-small-cell lung carcinoma, the pathology of obesity, the role of the histopathologist in stratified medicine for cancer, the mucosal pathology of the gastric cardia and Barrett's esophagus, the pathology of regenerative and neoplastic hepatocellular nodules, serrated lesions of the colon and rectum, the pathology of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, the diagnosis and therapy for gastrointestinal MALT (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue) lymphoma, medical revalidation for histopathologists in the UK, molecular testing for human papillomavirus, and the role of tensins in health and disease. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)