BOOK REVIEW
Tumour diagnosis: practical approach and pattern analysis, 2nd edn
Awatif Al-nafussi, London: Hodder Arnold, 2005, $340.75 (hard cover), pp 1338. ISBN 0-340-8094-42
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This book contains the most recent information on tumours, is comprehensive in a most practical fashion and is in accordance with the World Health Organization classification of tumours. It has 1338 pages of text and more than 1600 high-quality colour images providing clear and straightforward examples for comparison.
The book is composed of three different parts. The first part is a detailed introduction to pattern analysis, mainly dedicated to trainee pathologists. Here, ten histological patterns and related subpatterns of growth and distinctive cell types are described with simple terminology, and illustrations.
The second part considers tumours by system or organ. In each chapter, tumours are classified by cell of origin. The book describes each tumour in a concise but complete manner, and the essential approach in brief paragraphs: clinical and pathological features, often with a separate short-cell
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