Main description:

"Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections" provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathologic diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Written for the practicing surgical pathologist, this text combines the superior illustrations of an atlas with carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion. The text is divided into four sections covering bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections of the gastrointestinal tract. The descriptive sections of each chapter are organized into short paragraphs for easy reference and include the use of tables to compare and contrast organisms and summarize differential diagnoses. Each chapter is extensively illustrated, and contains prose discussions of diagnostic features, differential diagnoses, brief clinical descriptions, and ancillary tests that help confirm the diagnosis (i.e. immunohistochemistry, special histochemical stains, and molecular diagnostic techniques).
"Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections" provides pertinent clinical, diagnostic, and epidemiologic information that will be valuable to the practicing surgical pathologist. This volume will also help surgical pathologists gain familiarity with other contributory laboratory tests that are available to help confirm diagnoses.

Contents:

Chapter 1. General approach to the Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Infections Section I. Bacterial Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 2. Aeromonas, Vibrio cholerae, and related species Chapter 3. Campylobacter species Chapter 4. Helicobacter pylori and related species Chapter 5. Salmonella Chapter 6. Shigella Chapter 7. E. coli Chapter 8. Yersinia enterocolitica and pseudotuberculosis Chapter 9. Mycobacterial infections Chapter 10. Clostridial Infections Chapter 11. Spirochetes Chapter 12. Whipple's Disease Chapter 13. Miscellaneous Bacterial Infections Section II. Fungal Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 14. General Approach to Diagnosis of Fungal Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 15. Candida Chapter 16. Aspergillus and Zygomycetes Chapter 17. Histoplasmosis Chapter 18. Cryptococcus neoformans Chapter 19. Pneumocystis carinii Section III. Viral Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 20. Cytomegalovirus Chapter 21. Herpes simplex virus Chapter 22. Adenovirus Chapter 23. Miscellaneous Enteric Viruses Chapter 24. Human Papillomavirus infection of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 25. Important Gastrointestinal Manifestations of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Chapter 26. Miscellaneous Viral Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Section IV. Parasitic Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 27. Miscellaneous Protozoal Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 28. Entamoeba histolytica Chapter 29. Intestinal Flagellates Chapter 30. Coccidians Chapter 31. Miscellaneous Helminthic Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract Chapter 32. Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworms) Chapter 33. Strongyloides stercoralis Chapter 34. Anisakis simplex and related nematodes Chapter 35. Gastrointestinal Schistosomiasis