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Diagnostic electron microscopy of tumours /
Diagnostic Electron Microscopy of Tumors, Second Edition is a guide on how to employ electron microscopy techniques in making evaluation on tumor biopsies. This edition aims to serve as a source of information, references, and electron micrographs for the practicing electron microscopists. This book...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Boston :
Butterworths,
1985.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Diagnostic Electron Microscopy of Tumours; Copyright Page; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; References; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Part 1: Ultrastructural techniques; Chapter 1. Collecting and processing tissues for diagnostic electron microscopy; Changes produced by delays in specimen collection; Method of tissue processing employed in our laboratory; Choice of fixatives; Importance of using small blocks of tissues; Search for a fixative suitable for both light and electron microscopy; Fast methods of processing tissues
- Reprocessing paraffin-embedded tissue for electron microscopySemithin sections; Staining; References; Chapter 2. Choosing an electron microscope; References; Part 2: Ultrastructural assessment of behaviour and growth rate of tumours; Chapter 3. Is it malignant?; Cytological changes; Intercellular relationships; Infiltration; Some instances where electron microscopy may help to distinguish benign and malignant tumours; References; Chapter 4. Differences between normal and neoplastic cells; Nucleus; Interchromatin and perichromatin granules; Giant perichromatin granules
- Nuclear envelope and poresNuclear fibrous lamina; Intranuclear inclusions; Nucleolus; Mitochondria; Rough endoplasmic reticulum; Golgi complex; Lysosomes; References; Part 3: Ultrastructural analysis of diagnostic problems; Chapter 5. Is it a carcinoma or a sarcoma? (A study of cell junctions in normal and neoplastic tissues); Basal lamina and external lamina; Cell junctions; Cell junctions in neoplasia; References; Chapter 6. Is it an adenocarcinoma or a squamous cell carcinoma?; Types of granules in adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma; Intercellular canaliculi, lumina or spaces
- Intracellular or intracytoplasmic luminaInterdigitations of the cell membrane; References; Chapter 7. Is it a mesothelioma?; Histological features; Ultrastructure of mesothelioma; References; Chapter 8. Is it a melanoma?; Melanosomes; Melanin-producing cells; Melanocytes; Distribution of solitary and compound melanosomes; Ultrastructure of melanoma and diagnostic pitfalls; References; Chapter 9. Is it a neuroendocrinoma (APUDoma)? What type of neuroendocrinoma is it?; Is it a neuroendocrinoma?; Islet cells and islet cell tumours; Carcinoid tumours; Phaeochromocytoma (chromaffin paraganglioma)
- Chemodectoma (non-chromaffin paraganglioma)Diagnostic implications of noradrenaline granules; Pituitary adenomas; Amyloid in neuroendocrinomas; References; Chapter 10. Differential diagnosis of eosinophilic granular cell tumours; Tinctorial and texturial properties ofthe cytoplasm; Oncocytes and oncocytomas; Granular cell myoblastoma (granular cell schwannoma); Some other granular cell tumours; References; Chapter 11. Is it a renal oncocytoma or a renal cell carcinoma?; Renal oncocytoma; Renal cell carcinoma; Ultrastructural criteria and diagnostic problems; References