Amazon.com description: Product Description: Practical, and intended for day-to-day use, this state-of-the-art New Edition presents the elements of immunohistochemistry in the context of the "total test". It deals logically with issues of test selection · reagent selection and quantification · protocols and methods · controls · results · interpretation · in situ hybridization · reporting · and significance. In each chapter, readers will find infectious diseases and prognostic markers and a molecular morphology perspective, focusing on DNA, RNA, and protein, thus offering the surgical pathologist a genuine ability to see with molecular eyes. Immunomicroscopy, 3rd Edition is Volume 19 in the Major Problems in Pathology Series.

• Features an expanded authorship of internationally renowned experts.
• Offers timely coverage on all diagnostically useful tests and their application and interpretation.
• Integrates infectious diseases and prognostic markers into each chapter, offering complete diagnostic coverage of any given organ system.

• Incorporates aspects of molecular morphology throughout.
• Presents an organ system approach to diagnostic surgical pathology.
• Includes appendices that address quality assurance and standardization protocols reflecting National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards guidelines · tissue microarrays · and laser microscopy and digital immunomicroscopy, including image analysis, spectral imaging, and quantitation.
• Uses full-color illustrations throughout.

With 32 expert contributors.