Author	Prayson, Richard A. author
Title	Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology [electronic resource] / by Richard A. Prayson, Mark L. Cohen
Imprint	Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2000
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7
Descript	VIII, 179 p. online resource

In this novel, highly practical neuropathology text, Richard Prayson, MD and Mark Cohen, MD critically summarize what pathologists most need to know about the principal neuropathologies in order to diagnose neural tissue confidently in their day-to-day work. The result is a concise, well-organized guide to the differential diagnosis of the most common neuropathologic entities encountered by general surgical pathologists. The authors go to great lengths to help readers with important diagnoses on very small amounts on tissue, or decide difficult situations where everything looks the same, or cope with intraoperative consultations when time is short and sample preparations less than ideal. Replete with a wealth of micrographs covering the many neuropathologies discussed, they successfully interpret differences in morphology as a guide to correct diagnosis. Richly detailed, Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology offers both general and specialist neuropathologists a user-friendly, decision-oriented guide to the major diagnostic problems in surgical neuropathology, one that will greatly facilitate successful day-to-day neuropathologic diagnosis, and thus the optimal care of patients

1 Intraoperative Consultation -- 2 Gliosis -- 3 Fibrillary Astrocytoma -- 4 Low-Grade Astrocytoma Variants -- 5 High-Grade Astrocytoma Variants -- 6 Radiation Change -- 7 Pilocytic Astrocytoma -- 8 Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma -- 9 Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma -- 10 Oligodendroglioma -- 11 Mixed Gliomas -- 12 Ependymoma -- 13 Subependymoma -- 14 Myxopapillary Ependymoma -- 15 Central Neurocytoma -- 16 Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumor -- 17 Ganglioglioma and Ganglion Cell Tumors -- 18 Choroid Plexus Tumors -- 19 Meningioma -- 20 Meningeal Sarcoma -- 21 Hemangioblastoma -- 22 Central Nervous System Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors -- 23 Pineal Region Tumors -- 24 Pituitary Gland Lesions -- 25 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma -- 26 Schwannoma -- 27 Benign Epithelial Lesionsโ{128}{148}Craniopharyngiomas and Cysts -- 28 Melanocytic Lesions -- 29 Paraganglioma -- 30 Chordoma -- 31 Tumor-Like Demyelinating Lesion -- 32 Vascular Malformations -- 33 Central Nervous System Vasculitis -- 34 Granulomatous Inflammation -- 35 Meningitis, Abscess, and Encephalitis