Presented in the renowned, fast-access format of other Washington Manual titles, this book is a practical guide to the clinical practice of surgical pathology. This resource covers all aspects of surgical pathology for every organ and anatomic site. Including gross examination and dissection; microscopic diagnosis of medical as well as surgical diseases; tumor classification; and tumor staging. Separate chapters are devoted to ancillary surgical pathology techniques, including immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy, frozen section diagnosis, flow cytometry, DNA and RNA based molecular methods, and imaging technologies.