by Parakrama Chandrasoma
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Gastrointestinal Pathology covers surgical pathology and cytopathology, including exfoliative and fine needle aspiration.
Contents
1. Basic Precepts
- Rules of Clinical Interaction
- Some Basic Rules of Pathology
- Specimen Handling
2. Non-neoplastic Diseases of the Esophagus
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Anatomic Abnormalities
- Motor Dysfunction
- Gastresophageal Reflux Disease
- Barrett's Esophagus
- Nonreflux Esophagitis
3. Eosphageal Neoplasms
- Squamous Carinoma
- Adenocarcinoma
- Other Malignant Neoplasms
- Benign Neoplasms
4. Noneoplastic Diseases of the Stomach
- The Normal Stomach
- Anatomic Abnormalities of the Stomach
- Gastritis
5. Gastric Neoplasms
6. The Duodenum
- Normal Structure
- Duodenitits
- Peptic Duodenal Ulcer
- Duodenal Polyps
- Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Duodenal Adenocarcinoma
7. Malabsorption Syndrome
- Normal Absorption
- Mechanisms and Clinical Features of Malabsorption
- Normal Small-Intestinal Muscosa
- Small-Intestinal Biopsy
- Diseases Associated with Malabsorption
8. Pathology of the Small Intestine
- Congenital Abnormalities
- Motility Disorders
- Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
- Inflammatory Diseases
- Drug-Induced Intestinal Pathology
- Vascular Diseases
- Tumors of the Small Intestine
9. The Appendix
- Pathologic Examination of the Appendix
- Acute Appedicitis
- Carcinoid Tumors
- Epithelial Lesions
- Pseudo-Myxoma Peritonei
- Miscellaneous Conditions
10. Nonneoplastic Diseases of the Colon
- Motility Disorders
- Colonic Diverticular Disease
- Colitides
- Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome
- Colitis Cystica Profunda
- Vascular Diseases
11. Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Crohn's Disease
- Indeterminate Colitis
- Pathologic Diagnostic Problems in IIBD
12. Colorectal Polyps and Polyposis Syndromes
- Colorectal Polyps
- Colorectal Polyposis Syndromes
- Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
13. Colorectal Malignant Neoplasms
- Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
- Colorectal Neuroendocrine Tumors
14. Mesenchymal Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract
- Gastrointestinal Stromal Neoplasms
- Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor
- Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor
- Gangliocytic Paraganglioma
- Tumors of Adipocytes
- Vascular Tumors
- Metastatic Neoplasms
15. Malignant Lymphomas of the Gastrointestinal Tract
- Normal Lymphoid Tissue
- Classification of GI Tract Lymphomas
- GI Involvement by Nodal-Based Lymphomas
- Immunoproliferative Small-Intestinal Disease
- Enteropathy-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma
- Multiple Lymphomatous Polyposis
- High-Grade Burkitt's Lymphoma
16. The Anal Canal
- Structure and Function
- Benign Anorectal Lesions
- Neoplasms
17. Gastrointestinal Pathology in the Immunocompromised Patient
- Viral Infections
- Bacterial Infections
- Fungal Infections
- Parasitic Infections
- Neoplasms
- Graft-versus-Host Disease
18. Cytopathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract
- Specimen Collection
- Esophageal Cytopathology
- Gastric Cytopathology
- Duodenal Cytopathology
- Colonic Cytopathology
- The Anal Canal
Index