Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections
Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathologic diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Written for the practicing
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Laura W. Lamps
Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections
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Laura W. Lamps Department of Pathology Diagnostic Laboratories University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4301 W. Markham St. Little Rock, AR 72205 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0860-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0861-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0861-2 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009931925 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For Drs. George F. Gray, Jr.; Rodger C. Haggitt; and William A. Webb; they taught me most of what I know, but only a small portion of what they know.
Preface
Each organism’s environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. – Kevin Kelly
Enteric infections are the second most common cause of death in the world, among all ages, preceded only by cardiovascular disease. The amount of anatomic pathology training that most of us receive pertaining to infectious disease pathology is at odds with these statistics. Most infectious disease pathology training is provided in the microbiology laboratory and is divorced from the examination of tissue sections. There are many situations, however, in which the histologic findings as well as microbiological data are critical to both the diagnosis and the management of an infectious disease. This book is designed to serve as a practical reference for the pathologic diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition to discussing the morphologic features of the various infections, I have tried to emphasize how infectious diseases mimic other entities that we frequently encounter in gastrointestinal pathology, such as chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease and ischemic enterocolitis. Much of the book is obviously devoted to illustrations, and the text is not intended as an ex
