12 CHAPTER Miscellaneous Nodules, Depositions, and Cysts This chapter includes a number of miscellaneous, largely unrelated conditions. Most share the radiographic finding of a parenchymal nodule or nodules, whereas some…
2 CHAPTER Interstitial Diseases I: Cellular Variants Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a broad term that, depending on definition, may encompass a wide variety of unrelated diseases. To many clinicians,…
10 CHAPTER Pulmonary Hypertension and Other Noninflammatory Vascular Disorders This chapter includes pulmonary hypertension and other abnormalities of the pulmonary vasculature that cause significant respiratory dysfunction and are unrelated to…
6 CHAPTER Necrotizing Noninfectious Diseases This chapter reviews diseases characterized by parenchymal necrosis associated with a cellular tissue reaction in the absence of an infectious etiology. Contrasting histologic and clinical…
11 CHAPTER Large and Small Airway Diseases This chapter includes diseases in which the predominant pathologic changes involve bronchi and bronchioles. Emphasis is on those entities that may be encountered…
13 CHAPTER Pediatric Disorders This chapter reviews selected conditions occurring in infants and young children that are likely to be encountered by surgical pathologists. It does not include entities that…
1 CHAPTER Normal Lung, Common Artifacts, and Incidental Findings This chapter briefly reviews architectural landmarks in the lung that are important for understanding pathologic alterations and explains how they are…
8 CHAPTER Infections II: Granulomatous Infections This chapter includes selected infections likely to be encountered on biopsy or surgical specimens in which granulomatous inflammation, usually necrotizing or a combination of…
9 CHAPTER Pneumoconiosis Pneumoconioses are diseases caused by inhalation of environmental dusts, and most are diagnosed by a combination of clinical history and imaging studies. This chapter includes only selected…
5 CHAPTER Diffuse Alveolar Damage, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) and its clinicopathologic counterpart, acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP), are reviewed in a separate chapter because they represent a…
