This book provides pathologists-in-training as well as experienced practitioners an easy-to-use practical diagnostic guide for lesions involving the lung and pleura. It also serves as a reliable resource for clinicians interested in the histopathologic features that define the entities that afflict their patients. This text covers a breadth of common problems likely to cross your microscope but without a level of detail likely to satisfy a desire for deep knowledge of their biology. The fourteen chapters begin with a brief overview of normal histology before moving on to incidental findings, followed by non-neoplastic and finally neoplastic diseases. Individual diseases include a brief introduction followed by gross photographs for selected entities and multiple photomicrographs at different magnifications with detailed legends describing the findings. The introductory narratives are intentionally concise, including only essential clinical and radiological information and key pathologic features.

Normal Structures and Common Artifacts.- Incidental Findings and Lesions of Limited Clinical Significance.- Pediatric Disorders.- Infectious Diseases.- Diseases of Cartilaginous and Noncartilaginous Airways.- Diffuse Nongranulomatous Lung Disorders.- Noninfectious Diffuse Granulomatous Lung Diseases.- Transplant-Related Disorders.- Pneumoconiosis.- Pulmonary Vascular Diseases.- Pulmonary Lymphoproliferative Diseases.- Benign Lung Neoplasms.- Lung Carcinoma.- Malignant Nonepithelial Lung and Pleural Neoplasms.