Pulmonary pathology

Normal anatomy, tissue artifacts, and incidental structures -- The uses and abuses of the lung biopsy -- A pattern-based approach to diagnosis -- Congenital, developmental, and inherited disorders -- Acquired and idiopathic disorders in neonates and young children -- Lung neoplasms in infants and children -- Vascular diseases -- Vasculitides and other causes of pulmonary hemorrhage -- Acute lung injury -- Bacterial diseases -- Mycobacterial diseases -- Fungal diseases -- Viral diseases -- Human parasitic pulmonary infections -- Chlamydial, mycoplasmal, rickettsial, and ehrlichial diseases -- Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias -- Other interstitial lung diseases -- Environmental- and toxin-induced lung diseases -- Drug reactions and other iatrogenic pulmonary diseases -- Emphysema and diseases of large airways -- Diseases of small airways -- Lymphoid lesions of the lung -- Uncommon histiocytic and dendritic cell proliferations -- Transplantation-related lung pathology -- Other nonneoplastic focal lesions, inclusions, and depositions -- Usual lung cancers -- Neuroendocrine neoplasms -- Unusual primary malignant lung neoplasms -- Pulmonary involvement by extrapulmonary neoplasms -- Precursors of malignancy -- Benign neoplasms of the lungs -- Primary pleural neoplasms -- Pleural involvement by extrapleural neoplasms -- Inflammatory and fibrosing pleural processes -- Pulmonary manifestations of systemic diseases -- Respiratory cytology.

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