Part I
1. Gross Examination
Stephen A. Geller
2. The Pathologist's Guide to Fixatives
Kiran Qidwai, Michelle Afkhami and Christina Day
3. Tissue Processing and Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining
Ada T. Feldman
4. Light Microscope Alignment Methods
Robert Bagnell
5. Immunohistochemistry in Surgical Pathology: Principles and Practice
Clive R Taylor
6. Optimizing Direct Immunofluorescence
Ian D. Odell and Deborah Cook
7. Electron Microscopy: A Brief History and Review of Current Clinical Application
Ronald E. Gordon
8. A Practical Approach to Clinical and Research Biobanking
William H. Yong, Sarah M. Dry, and Maryam Shabihkhani
Part II
9. Hospital Autopsy Performance and Reporting
Jacqueline Benjamin
10. Characterization of HER2 Status by Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) and Immunohistochemistry (IHC)
Oliver A. Press, Roberta Guzman, Monica Cervantes, Angela Santiago, and Michael F. Press
11. Intraoperative Frozen Section Consultation in Gynecologic Pathology
Fabiola Medeiros and Juan C. Felix
12. Processing Dermatological Biopsies
Gene Kim, Brittney DeClerck, and Eric Sorenson
13. Human Papillomavirus Testing in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Best Practice for Diagnosis
Andrew Schache, James Croud, Max Robinson, and Selvam Thavaraj
14. Peripheral Blood Smears, Bone Marrow Aspiration, Trephine and Clot Biopsies:
Methods and Protocols
Michelle Afkhami, Maria Vergara-Lluri, Russell K. Brynes, and Imran N. Siddiqi
15. Processing the Lymph Node Biopsy
Eric Loo and Imran Siddiqi
16. Handling and Interpretation of Heart Transplant Biopsies
Eric Swanson and W. Dean Wallace
17. Handling And Interpretation Of Lung Transplant Biopsies
Eric Swanson and W. Dean Wallace
18. Liver: Tissue Handling and Evaluation
Stephen A. Geller
19. Handling and Interpretation of the Medical Renal Biopsy
Michael N. Koss
20. Optimizing Prostate Specimen Handling for Diagnosis and Prognosis
David G. Bostwick, Christina Day, and Isabelle Meiers
21. Optimal Handling of Bone Tumor Specimens
Leslie G. Dodd, Shi Wei, and Gene P. Siegal
22. CNS Intraoperative Consultation: A Survival Guide for Non-Neuropathologists
Jesse Lee Kresak, Marie Rivera-Zengotita, Robin M. Foss, Anthony T. Yachnis
23. Examining and Processing Eye Specimens
Amir A. Azari, Nasreen A. Syed, and Daniel M. Albert
24. Optimizing the Skeletal Muscle Biopsy
Karen M. Weidenheim