Synopsis

Now completely revised and updated, this ground-breaking text focuses on the borderland between histology and pathology. The text describes human histology and its variations, with emphasis on avoiding overdiagnosis or misdiagnosis of normal variants. Presented by leading international specialists in thology,histopathology, anatomical pathology, surgical pathology, and neuropathology, the text is innovative, well organized and generously illustrated. Coverage includes the structure, composition, and function of tissues from a pathologic perspective; a systematic review of each major organ system, as well as structures of special significance; and histologic subtleties, such as unusual variations in staining reactions, little-known fixation artifacts, and frequently missed gross observations.

This edition is reorganized to better reflect an organ-system approach to histology. Immunohistochemical findings in normal tissues have been added, based on the latest antibody panels.

A bound-in CD-ROM image bank is included.

Reviewer: Ivan Damjanov, MD(University of Kansas Medical Center)
Description: This is the third edition of a well known textbook of histology specifically designed for histopathologists. The book has been completely updated and revised from the second edition of 1997 and the new editor has made considerable improvements.
Purpose: The aim of the editor and collaborators is to provide diagnostic pathologists with an encyclopedic reference textbook of normal histology. The book that first appeared in 1992 proved to be so popular that it was revised for a second edition in 1997, and now it appears as a fully revised third edition.
Audience: The book was compiled for practicing pathologists and residents. It may be used by medical students and clinicians studying histology from a practical diagnostic point of view. The new editor is one of the leaders of modern American pathology, a well known author and accomplished editor and the list of contributors reads like a "who's who" in American pathology.
Features: The 48 chapters deal with all organs in the human body and include high quality microphotographs, electron microscopy pictures, and even some gross photographs of pathology specimens. Most of the figures are well chosen and illustrative, nicely complementing the text.
Assessment: This unique compendium of essential data about the normal histology of the human body is an essential manual for all diagnostic surgical pathologists and their trainees. This third edition differs considerably from the second edition and thus it must be included in the essential titles for all pathology libraries and major medical school libraries. There are no other books with which to compare it. The editor and the contributors deserve our gratitude and congratulations.