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This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering every area of thoracic pathology, it incorporates the most recent clinical, pathologic, and molecular knowledge in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to today's practice. Succinctly written, richly illustrated, and easy to use, Diagnostic Pathology: Thoracic, fourth edition, is an essential text for accurate diagnosis and ideal as a day-to-day reference or as a one-stop resource for surgical pathologists, pathology residents, and fellows. Provides a clear framework for a better understanding of the clinical and histopathologic findings of pulmonary, pleural, and mediastinal entities; as well as an intuitive structure that organizes chapters by neoplastic and nonneoplastic lesions and pseudotumoral conditions of the lung Offers major additions to the molecular pathology sections for all relevant entities, specifying the types of genetic mutations found in those tumors, covering next-generation sequencing and other molecular diagnostic techniques, and detailing the ways these genetic alterations can be used by pathologists to distinguish diseases Features new chapters on lung allograft pathology; pulmonary chondroma in Carney syndrome; new soft tissue tumor entities, including clear cell stromal tumor of the lung; and new salivary gland tumors, including hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma Contains timely updates for mesothelioma grading, squamous cell carcinoma grading, and thymic epithelial tumor diagnostics, including new information on thymic carcinoma; new additions to atypical and conventional thymoma; updated content on molecular genetics of thymic tumors; and new molecular genetic and diagnostic biomarker details for several bone and soft tissue chapters, including nome