Stacey E Mills - Histology for Pathologists

FOURTH EDITION

Editor
Stacey E. Mills, MD
W.S. Royster Professor of Pathology
Director of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Virginia

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Histology for pathologists. - 4th ed. / editor, Stacey E. Mills.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4511-1303-7 (hardback)

I. Mills, Stacey E.

[DNLM: 1. Histology. 2. Pathology. QS 504]

611.018-dc23 2012011114

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