Sternberg SS, ed. ($325.) Lippincott, 1999. ISBN 0 3975 8792 9.

• Diagnostic surgical pathology. Sternberg SS
• editor

At 56 chapters written by 93 authors and extending to 2445 pages, this is the third edition of Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology and a heavy weight re-entry into the mighty two and three volume all embracing histopathology tome market. The preface by the editor and his four associates promises us “the latest on PMETs”. I am not quite sure what PMETs are. Perhaps they are secondary deposits from PNETs! Typographical errors aside, on a more positive note, the promise of a revised lymphoma classification, an update on gut lymphomas and those of the skin, a reclassification of papillary urothelial neoplasms, the introduction of new aspects of kidney tumours, modernisation of the approach to gastrointestinal stromal tumours, new concepts in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast …