A concise guide for practising vets on anatomic pathology, this book aids the reader's understanding of pathology, thus allowing optimisation of diagnostic tests.
Anatomic Pathology for Veterinary Clinicians will teach practitioners how to:
take quality biopsy samples to get better results
understand histopathology reports
know when additional tests are warranted and are likely to give clinically useful information.
Abbreviations
Submission of samples
Post-mortem examinations and gross pathology
Biopsy types with regards to tumour grading and margin assessment
Gastrointestinal and liver biopsies
Special stains, immunohistochemistry and additional testing
Oncology: recognizing features of neoplasia and of malignancy
Oncology: histological descriptions, grading of neoplasms and additional prognostication
Self-assessment answers
References
Further reading
Index
