Central Nervous System
The neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system tissue working closely with the clinical disciplines of neurology, neurosurgery, and metabolic experts. This chapter is far from being a comprehensive study of the brain and spinal cord but will
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Pathology Clinical Medicine of Childhood and Adolescence Covertemplate An Illustrated Subtitle for Guide Clinical Medicine Consolato M. SergiCovers T3_HB Second Edition
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Pathology of Childhood and Adolescence
Consolato M. Sergi
Pathology of Childhood and Adolescence An Illustrated Guide
Consolato M. Sergi University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada
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Foreword
University hospitals, major hospitals, and medical care centers must have a pathological institute, and this is a long-standing requirement. This facility is the prerequisite for the adequate diagnosis of most of the diseases that need to be treated. Since most major hospitals also have pediatric and pediatric and adolescent surgery, the affiliated pathological institute should either have a department for pediatric pathology or at least one or two, better three, designated pathologists of childhood pathology to meet the child-specific pathological diagnosis. It is well known that this is not always the case. There are very few institutes of pathology that have their department or division of pediatric pathology or at least have a pediatric pathologist. The well-known sentence “children are not small adults” is often not taken into account. At present, at least in the German-speaking world, pediatric pathology is only a subdiscipline of pathology. It is carried out often by general pathologists who are particularly in
