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Sternberg's diagnostic surgical pathology review; contents; preface; part i skin, soft tissue, bone, and joints; nonneoplastic diseases of the skin; nonmelanocytic cutaneous tumors; melanocytic lesions; muscle biopsy in neuromuscular diseases; disorders of soft tissue; joint diseases; nonneoplastic diseases of bones; bone tumors; part ii breast; the breast; part iii central nervous system; the brain, spinal cord, and meninges; part iv endocrine system; the neuroendocrine and paracrine systems; the pituitary and sellar region; pathology of thyroid and parathyroid disease; the adrenal glands

Paragangliomaspart v hematopoietic and lymphatic systems; disorders of bone marrow; lymph nodes; the spleen; part vi head and neck; the jaws and oral cavity; salivary glands; the nose, paranasal sinuses, and nasopharynx; pathology of the larynx; the ear; the eye and ocular adnexa; part vii intrathoracic organs and blood vessels; nonneoplastic pulmonary disease; pulmonary neoplasms; the pleura; the mediastinum; the heart; blood vessels; part viii alimentary canal and associated organs; esophagus; the stomach; nonneoplastic intestinal diseases; intestinal neoplasms; pancreas

Nonneoplastic liver diseasemasses of the liver; gallbladder, extrahepatic biliary tree, and ampulla; anus and perianal area; part ix urinary tract and male genital system; developmental abnormalities of the kidney; adult renal diseases; adult renal tumors; renal neoplasms of childhood; the urothelial tract: renal pelvis, ureter, urinary bladder, and urethra; the prostate and seminal vesicles; nonneoplastic diseases of the testis; testicular and paratesticular tumors; the penis; part x female reproductive system and peritoneum; gestational trophoblastic disease; the placenta

The vulva and vaginathe cervix; the uterine corpus; ovarian surface epithelial-stromal tumors; sex cord-stromal, steroid cell, and germ cell tumors of the ovary; miscellaneous primary tumors, secondary tumors, and nonneoplastic lesions of the ovary; the fallopian tube and broad ligament; the peritoneum; i answers and explanations

This multiple-choice question-and-answer review book is an excellent study aid for candidates preparing for board certification. It also serves as a useful review for recertification examinations in pathology. It provides a systematic review of surgical pathology, with more than 600 multiple-choice questions emphasizing differential diagnostic aspects of problem solving. Each question focuses on a specific disease entity or diagnostic problem as presented in Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology . Questions are followed by answers and succinct explanations. Each chapter ends with explanato