Susan C. Lester, MD, PhD, is Chief of Breast Pathology Services and Senior Breast Pathologist and Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

"This manual comprehensively covers the processing of surgical and biopsy tissue specimens submitted for pathologic examination. This fourth edition has been thoroughly expanded, revised, and updated from the previous version, published in 2010, to include the new eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer criteria." -©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Anamarija Perry, MD (University of Michigan Medical School)

• Part One1. Requests for Pathologic Evaluation2. Specimen Processing: From Gross Specimens to Tissue Cassettes3. The Histology Laboratory-What the Pathologist Needs to Know-From Tissue Cassettes to Glass Slides4. The Surgical Pathology Report: From the Glass Slide to the Final Diagnosis5. Special Studies6. Occupational Hazards7. Microscopy and PhotographyPart Two8. Adrenal Gland9. Amputations and Large Resections10. Small Biopsies11. Bone and Joints12. Breast13. Cardiovascular Specimens14. Cytology Specimens15. Dermatopathology16. Gastrointestinal Specimens17. Genitourinary Specimens18. Gross Examination19. Gynecologic and Perinatal Pathology20. Head and Neck and Laryngeal Specimens21. Hernia Sac22. Lung and Pleura23. Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Bone Marrow24. Medical Devices and Foreign Material25. Neuropathology26. Paraganglioma27. Penis28. Soft Tissue Tumors (Sarcomas)29. Thymus30. Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

Susan C. Lester, MD, PhD, is Chief of Breast Pathology Services and Senior Breast Pathologist and Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

"This manual comprehensively covers the processing of surgical and biopsy tissue specimens submitted for pathologic examination. This fourth edition has been thoroughly expanded, revised, and updated from the previous version, published in 2010, to include the new eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer criteria." -©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Anamarija Perry, MD (University of Michigan Medical School)

• Part One1. Requests for Pathologic Evaluation2. Specimen Processing: From Gross Specimens to Tissue Cassettes3. The Histology Laboratory-What the Pathologist Needs to Know-From Tissue Cassettes to Glass Slides4. The Surgical Pathology Report: From the Glass Slide to the Final Diagnosis5. Special Studies6. Occupational Hazards7. Microscopy and PhotographyPart Two8. Adrenal Gland9. Amputations and Large Resections10. Small Biopsies11. Bone and Joints12. Breast13. Cardiovascular Specimens14. Cytology Specimens15. Dermatopathology16. Gastrointestinal Specimens17. Genitourinary Specimens18. Gross Examination19. Gynecologic and Perinatal Pathology20. Head and Neck and Laryngeal Specimens21. Hernia Sac22. Lung and Pleura23. Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Bone Marrow24. Medical Devices and Foreign Material25. Neuropathology26. Paraganglioma27. Penis28. Soft Tissue Tumors (Sarcomas)29. Thymus30. Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

Susan C. Lester, MD, PhD, is Chief of Breast Pathology Services and Senior Breast Pathologist and Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

"This manual comprehensively covers the processing of surgical and biopsy tissue specimens submitted for pathologic examination. This fourth edition has been thoroughly expanded, revised, and updated from the previous version, published in 2010, to include the new eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer criteria." -©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Anamarija Perry, MD (University of Michigan Medical School)

• Part One1. Requests for Pathologic Evaluation2. Specimen Processing: From Gross Specimens to Tissue Cassettes3. The Histology Laboratory-What the Pathologist Needs to Know-From Tissue Cassettes to Glass Slides4. The Surgical Pathology Report: From the Glass Slide to the Final Diagnosis5. Special Studies6. Occupational Hazards7. Microscopy and PhotographyPart Two8. Adrenal Gland9. Amputations and Large Resections10. Small Biopsies11. Bone and Joints12. Breast13. Cardiovascular Specimens14. Cytology Specimens15. Dermatopathology16. Gastrointestinal Specimens17. Genitourinary Specimens18. Gross Examination19. Gynecologic and Perinatal Pathology20. Head and Neck and Laryngeal Specimens21. Hernia Sac22. Lung and Pleura23. Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Bone Marrow24. Medical Devices and Foreign Material25. Neuropathology26. Paraganglioma27. Penis28. Soft Tissue Tumors (Sarcomas)29. Thymus30. Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands