Gross Pathology Handbook: A Guide to Descriptive Terms

The updated second edition of this highly practical guide helps pathology professionals quickly and accurately describe surgical and autopsy specimens as they perform gross dissection. It also helps clinicians and medical students interpret pathology reports with ease and precision.

Gross Pathology Handbook provides a comprehensive list of 171 gross descriptive terms paired with images of gross specimens, including five new listings for the second edition. Each listing includes a brief commentary describing the gross appearance, the underlying disease process and commonly affected tissues.

Christopher Horn and Dr. Christopher Naugler lay the framework for a standardized method of description, resulting in easier interpretation of reports by clinicians and improved communication among healthcare providers.

Christopher Horn, MSc, PA(ASCP)CM (CCCPA-CCCAP) is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Calgary and a pathologists' assistant at Alberta Precision Laboratories, where he has performed surgical gross dissection and autopsy services since 1999.

Christopher Naugler, MD, FRCPC is a diagnostic and clinical pathologist and family physician with wide-ranging research, teaching, and clinical experience. He is a professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.