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Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease

  • 2nd Edition - April 26, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Richard L. Kradin
  • Language: English

Comprehensive and up to date, the Second Edition of Diagnostic Pathology: Infectious Disease, by Dr. Richard Kradin, is an invaluable tool for the accurate diagnosis of any infec… Read more

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Comprehensive and up to date, the Second Edition of Diagnostic Pathology: Infectious Disease, by Dr. Richard Kradin, is an invaluable tool for the accurate diagnosis of any infectious disease―from the common to the most challenging. The organ-based format makes it an especially useful tool for surgical pathologists’ daily diagnostic and management issues. High-quality, full-color illustrations and differential diagnosis tables accompany each lesion, clearly depicting how to recognize the morphology of organisms and the spectrum of histological responses that they may cause.

Key features


  • Addresses the most difficult diagnostic issues that practicing or trainee surgical pathologists face when handling infectious disease tissue specimens.
  • Highlights morphological characteristics and landmarks of tissue samples for easy access to information necessary for signing out a specimen.
  • Emphasizes the host responses critical in differential diagnosis to serve as a second opinion when non-infectious diagnoses mimic and confound the diagnosis of infection.

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. General Principles in the Diagnosis of Infection

3. Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Infection: Clinical Approach

4. Cytopathology of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases

5. Ultrastructural Diagnosis of Infection

6. New Techniques for the Diagnosis of Infection

7. Ear, Nose, and Throat Infections

8. Pathology of Pulmonary Infection

9. Cardiac Infections

10. Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

11. Liver and Bile Duct Infections

12. Infectious Lymphadenitis

13. Infectious Diseases of the Bone Marrow and Spleen

14. Infection of Bone

15. Infections of Joints, Synovium-lined Structures, and Soft Tissue

16. Genitourinary Infectious Disease Pathology

17. Gynecological Infections

18. Perinatal Infections

19. Infections of the Nervous System

20. Skin Infections

21. Infections of the Eye and Its Adnex

Review quotes

"This is an excellent resource for any pathologist who wants to brush up on infectious histopathology or to have scope-side for expert consultation. Microbiologists will love the clinical correlate to the microorganisms with which they're so familiar. Users of the first edition will be pleased with the update and pathologists looking for a new reference for infectious histopathology can stop here!" Reviewed by Sarah L. Rooney, BA, MD (University of Michigan Medical School) Doody's Score: 96, 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 14, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Richard L. Kradin

Dr. Kradin is board certified in both Pathology and Internal Medicine and is on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Pulmonary Critical Care unit and the Department of Pathology where he is responsible for infectious disease pathology and pulmonary disease pathology. Dr. Kradin is MGH trained and is the author of over 125 peer-reviewed papers. The Massachusetts General Hospital sees a wide spectrum of infectious disease as it is a major tertiary referral center and transplant center and has a division of tropical disease. The book will draw upon the expertise of both pathologists and clinicians from this hospital. Research interests include pulmonary pathology, pulmonary immunity, infectious disease, stress and immunity, and asbestos-related disease.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Pathologist and Associate Physician, Department of Pathology and Pulmonary/Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Associate Professor in Pathology and Associate Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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