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This book is a practical guide to all laboratory procedures in surgical pathology, covering both diagnostic and research aspects.
Divided into seventeen sections, topics covered include routine and special staining procedures, cytopathology and FNAC procedures, biopsies, tissue processing and much more. A complete chapter is dedicated to microtomy. Each procedure is presented in a step by step format, explaining its principles, methodology and troubleshooting.
The final chapters cover quality control, telepathology and telecytology, molecular diagnostic pathology, laboratory waste management, and the function of microscopes.
Key Points
- Practical guide to all laboratory procedures in surgical pathology
- Covers both diagnostic and research aspects
- Complete chapter dedicated to microtomy
- Highly illustrated with clinical images and tables
Shameem Shariff MD PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Pathology; Head, Department of Central Research, MVJ Medical College and Research Hospital, Bengaluru Rural, Karnataka, India
Amrit Kaur Kaler MD
Associate Professor, ACS Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Fixation
- Decalcification
- Tissue Processing
- Tissue Embedding
- Microtomy
- Section Cutting
- Introduction to Staining and Principles of Staining
- Special Histochemical Stains
- Special Biopsies
- Immunohistochemistry and Immunofluorescence
- Cytopreparatory Techniques
- Quality Control in Cytopathology
- Quality Control in Histopathology
- Telepathology and Telecytology
- Molecular Diagnostic Pathology
- Laboratory Waste Management
- Principles in the Functioning of Microscopes