Pathology of the Pleura and Mediastinum

Acquired multilocular thymic cyst.- Adenomatoid Tumor, Pleural.- Amyloidosis, Pleural.- Angiomyolipoma, Mediastinal.- Angiosarcoma, Mediastinal.- Angiosarcoma/Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma, Pleural.- Apical Cap Lesions.- Asbestos-Induced Pleural Disease.- Atypical thymomas.- Bacterial Infections, Pleural.- B-cell lymphoma, Mediastinal, diffuse, large.- Biphasic Diffuse Malignant Mesothelioma, Pleural.- Bronchogenic cyst, Mediastinal.- Calcifying Fibrous Pseudotumor.- Castlemans disease, Mediastinal.- Chondroma, Mediastinal.- Chondrosarcoma, Mediastinal.- Chondrosarcoma, Pleural.- Chordoma, Mediastinal.- Choriocarcinoma, Mediastinal.- Chylothorax.- Collagen Vascular Disease, Pleural.- Congenital thymic cyst.- Desmoid Tumor, Pleural.- Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor, Pleural.- Drug Induced Pleural Diseases.- Ectopic parathyroid tumors, Mediastinal.- Embryonal carcinoma, Mediastinal.- Empyema, Pleural.- Endometriosis, Pleural.- Enteric cyst, Mediastinal.- Eosinophilic Pleuritis.- Epithelial Diffuse Malignant Mesothelioma, Pleural.- Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, Mediastinal.- Extraskeletal myxoid condrosarcoma, Mediastinal.- Fibrous and Fibrinous Pleuritis.- Fibrous Pleural Adhesions.- Fungal Infections, Pleural.- Ganglioneuroblastoma, Mediastinal.- Ganglioneuroma, Mediastinal.- Germ cell tumors of the mediastinum.- Granular cell tumor, Mediastinal.- Granulomatous mediastinitis.- Granulomatous Pleuritis.- Hemangioma, Mediastinal.- Hemothorax.- Histologic Changes of Pleurodesis.- Hodgkin lymphoma, Mediastinal.- Leiomyoma, Mediastinal.- Leiomyosarcoma, Mediastinal.- Lipoma, Mediastinal.- Liposarcoma.- Liposarcoma, Mediastinal.- Liposarcoma, Primary Pleural.- Localized Malignant Mesothelioma, Pleural.- Localized Pleural Fibrosis.- Lymphangioma, Mediastinal.- Malignant Small Cell Tumor of Thoracopulmonary Region/Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor/Askin Tumor, Pleural.- Malignant Solitary Fibrous Tumor, Pleural.- Malignant Triton Tumor, Mediastinal.- Mediastinal

Timothy Craig Allen, M.D., J.D., obtained his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1984 and completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology, subsequently serving on the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine until 1995. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Law With Honors in 1998, subsequently practicing health care law and litigation. Dr. Allen completed a 2-year fellowship in pulmonary pathology in the Texas Medical Center in 2004. He is currently Professor of Pathology, Director of Anatomic Pathology, and Laboratory Director of the Department of Laboratory Services at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Allen is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and clinical pathology, with added qualification in cytopathology. He is an associate editor of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Allen is the president of the Pulmonary Pathology Society and president of the Texas Society of Pathology. He is Governor of the College of American Pathologists Board of Governors, and is chair, co-chair, or member of several CAP Councils and Committees. He has authored and coauthored numerous articles and book chapters on pulmonary pathology and medicolegal issues and has coauthored and co-edited several books on pulmonary pathology.



Dr. Suster took his basic training in pathology at the University of Tel-Aviv Sackler School of Medicine, Israel, followed by residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami, Florida, under Prof. Arkadi M. Rywlin, followed by a fellowship in research and surgical pathology at Yale University School of Medicine under Dr. Juan Rosai. He served as Director of Surgical Pathology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami and Professor of Pathology at the University of Miami School of Medicine from 1990-1997, and as Professor of Pathology andDirector