Popper Pathology of Lung Disease

Morphology – Pathogenesis – Etiology
Third Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-91697-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 873 Seiten

Reihe: Medicine (R0)

This well-illustrated textbook covers the full range of lung and pleural diseases from the pathologic standpoint. It has been updated from the second edition by including the most recent molecular data for the different lung diseases, tumor as well as non-tumor ones. New diagnostic tests are included, new aspects for the understanding of diseases have been added. Both diseases of adults and pediatric lung diseases are presented. The chapter on lung development has been expanded due to the many new findings being reported since the last edition.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popper, Helmut

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Development of the lung.- 2. Normal Lung.- 3. Pediatric Diseases.- 4. Edema.- 5. Air filling Diseases.- 6. Airway Diseases.- 7. Smoking related Lung Diseases.- 8. Pneumonia.- 9. Immunological Lung Diseases.- 10. Eosinophilic Lung Diseases.- 11. Vascular Lung Diseases.- 12. Metabolic Lung Diseases.- 13. Pneumoconiosis and Environmentally induced Lung Diseases.- 14. Iatrogenic Lung Diseases.- 15. Bronchoalveolar lavage as a diagnostic and research tool.- 16. Lung Transplantation-Related Pathology.- 17. Lung Tumors.- 18. Metastasis.- 19. Molecular Pathology of Lung Tumors.- 20. Basics in immunology – what a pathologist and oncologist should know.- 21. Immunotherapy of Lung Tumors.- 22. Diseases of the pleura.- 23. Experimental Lung Tumors.- 24. Handling of tissues and cells.

Über Autor(innen)

Helmut H. Popper gained his medical degree from the University of Graz, Austria, and subsequently undertook residency and fellowship training at the Institute of Pathology at the university. In 1985 he became Associate Professor of Pathology at the Institute and a year later, Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Pathology. In 1993, Dr Popper was appointed Professor of Pathology. Subsequent appointments in 2000 and 2008 were, respectively, as Head of Laboratories of Molecular Cytogenetics and Environmental and Respiratory Tract Pathology and Head of the Research Unit for Molecular Lung and Pleural Pathology. Dr Popper has held a number of prestigious positions during his career, including as Chairman of the Pulmonary Pathology Group of the European Society of Pathology and President of the Austrian Society of Pathology. He is an associate editor of the journal and a member of the editorial board of the . He has received awards or medals for Continuous Medical Education from the Swedish Medical Society, the Russian and Turkish Thoracic Societies, and the Italian Pathologic Society.