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MONOGRAPHS IN CLINICAL CYTOLOGY. CYTOPATHOLOGY OF PULMONARY DISEASE.
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MONOGRAPHS IN CUNICAL CITOLOGY. CITOPATHOLOGY OF PULMONARY DISEASE. By DOROTHY L. ROSENTHAL. Series editor GEORGE L. WIED. Basel, Switzerland: S Karger AG, 1988, 238 pp, $89.50
Although sputum cytology was first described over 100 years ago, it has been only in the past 20 years that the greatest advances in respiratory cytopathology have taken place, primarily as a result of the development of the fiberoptic bronchoscope. An excellent addition to the expanding literature on respiratory cytology is Dr. Rosenthals monograph, Cytopathology of Pulmonary Disease. As the 11th volume in the series Monographs in Clinical Cytology, it is an outstanding and compact text of 238 pages arranged in nine chapters covering the broad range of cytodiagnostic possibilities in the respiratory system. The first chapter provides an excellent foundation with a concise summation of the anatomy and functional histology of the respiratory tract. The next three chapters cover the nonmalignant changes seen in respiratory cytology, including a large segment devoted to infectious diseases. The photomicrographs in this section are of such high quality that they could just as easily been found in a microbiology text book. Although the fifth chapter takes up just seven pages, it succinctly covers the difficult and somewhat nebulous area of pre-neoplastic lesions. This chapter contains a valuable table in which cytologic criteria from metaplasia to invasive carcinoma are neatly outlined. The sixth chapter is the longest and most detailed, covering neoplasms of the lung. Of the total 106 figures throughout the book, 56 are in chapter 6. These photomicrographs are of excellent quality; color photomicrographs depict more subtle details. Eleven of the 24 total tables are in this chapter and provide helpful and concise differential diagnoses of common diagnostic dilemmas. I find this monograph well worth the $89.50 investment as an invaluable reference for cytopathologists, cytotechnologists and histopathologists in their daily practice of cytopathology. The pathology resident should particularly find this an invaluable addition to his or her library as a dependable reference source.
Henry W Bockelman, M. D. Evansville, Indiana
3
HO~I~~!2~can
No Longer Afford To Provide Liquid Oxygen For Your Patients.
FACT Reimbursement for Home Oxygen is changing. As always, your patients' needs will be met with a mix of oxygen therapy systems. While Oxygen Concentrators will still play an important role, Uquid Oxygen with a Companion 5 Oxygen Saver will be the most cost effective system for those patients who are ambulatory more than 10 hours per week. We think YOU'll find, as we have,
that not all inspiratory demand devices are created equal.
For information or copies of the clinical studies call:
r;T::1PURITAN I.iIIL::.J BENNETT 1-800-248-0890
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METHODS IN BRONCHIAL MUCOLOGY. Edited by PIER CARLO BRAGA and LlHGI ALLEGRA. New York: Raven Press, 1988,407 pp, $89.00 The editors' goal of providing a unique source of information on the major experimental and clinical methods used to study bronchial mucus-other (dated) treatises on the topic notwithstanding- has been achieved in this volume. Consequently, we may accept a priori the use of the neologism Umucology" and, after reading through the text. would even agree that the term is appropriate. Indeed, bronchial mucus is now being assessed by virtually all biomedical probes, from those that evaluate nuclei of relevant molecular conformations to those that look at the material as a conglomerate of diverse molecular species. However, rather early in the book. in the chapter Models of Mucus Structure, we are reminded ofa basic problem that all mucologists have to deal with normally, there may be no mucus at all, and a crying need is for definition of normal mucus. If this book does no more than stimulate further collaborative research. it will have achieved an unstated but equally important goal. The best Part of the book, the section on Biological Methods of Analysis, achieves this distinction on the basis of the format and coverage in each of its chapters, including methods for analysis, ciliary motion and mucus motion, as well as in vitro and electrophysiologic methods for studying processes of secretion and ionlliquid transfers. Each chapter (save one) sticks to a uniform format in which the topic is presented succinctly and critically; methods are described, evaluated and referenced in a useful and useable way for the reader, and commercially available resources are given where appropriate. Elsewhere the major sections are uneven (a problem inherent in multiauthored texts); one would have hoped for more stringent control by the editors. For example, the section on Physical Methods of Analysis, though comprehensive in subject titles, contains chapters that make for fascinating instruction including mathematical models, models of mucus structure, and two-phase gas-liquid flow; as well as chapters that are telegraphic in the extreme, such as mathematical analysis of viscoelasticity, the creep test and properties other than viscoelasticity and uadhesivity" (an unfortunate coinage for uadhesiveness"). The other major sections (Collecting and Measuring Methods, Chemical Methods, and Clinical Methods) bear the same burden to some degree, a burden which could but ultimately does not detract from the overall value of the book. Altogether, Methods in Bronchial Mucology is quite a compendium, one that will be appreciated by researcher and clinician. Where it is good, it is so good (even so far as to inform this reviewer that a sought-after measuring device can be fabricated by a vendor located in his own neighborhood) that the slips through the crack, though irritating, can be forgiven.
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MONOGRAPHS IN CUNICAL CITOLOGY. CITOPATHOLOGY OF PULMONARY DISEASE. By DOROTHY L. ROSENTHAL. Series editor GEORGE L. WIED. Basel, Switzerland: S Karger AG, 1988, 238 pp, $89.50
Although sputum cytology was first described over 100 years ago, it has been only in the past 20 years that the greatest advances in respiratory cytopathology have taken place, primarily as a result of the development of the fiberoptic bronchoscope. An excellent addition to the expanding literature on respiratory cytology is Dr. Rosenthals monograph, Cytopathology of Pulmonary Disease. As the 11th volume in the series Monographs in Clinical Cytology, it is an outstanding and compact text of 238 pages arranged in nine chapters covering the broad range of cytodiagnostic possibilities in the respiratory system. The first chapter provides an excellent foundation with a concise summation of the anatomy and functional histology of the respiratory tract. The next three chapters cover the nonmalignant changes seen in respiratory cytology, including a large segment devoted to infectious diseases. The photomicrographs in this section are of such high quality that they could just as easily been found in a microbiology text book. Although the fifth chapter takes up just seven pages, it succinctly covers the difficult and somewhat nebulous area of pre-neoplastic lesions. This chapter contains a valuable table in which cytologic criteria from metaplasia to invasive carcinoma are neatly outlined. The sixth chapter is the longest and most detailed, covering neoplasms of the lung. Of the total 106 figures throughout the book, 56 are in chapter 6. These photomicrographs are of excellent quality; color photomicrographs depict more subtle details. Eleven of the 24 total tables are in this chapter and provide helpful and concise differential diagnoses of common diagnostic dilemmas. I find this monograph well worth the $89.50 investment as an invaluable reference for cytopathologists, cytotechnologists and histopathologists in their daily practice of cytopathology. The pathology resident should particularly find this an invaluable addition to his or her library as a dependable reference source.
Henry W Bockelman, M. D. Evansville, Indiana
3
HO~I~~!2~can
No Longer Afford To Provide Liquid Oxygen For Your Patients.
FACT Reimbursement for Home Oxygen is changing. As always, your patients' needs will be met with a mix of oxygen therapy systems. While Oxygen Concentrators will still play an important role, Uquid Oxygen with a Companion 5 Oxygen Saver will be the most cost effective system for those patients who are ambulatory more than 10 hours per week. We think YOU'll find, as we have,
that not all inspiratory demand devices are created equal.
For information or copies of the clinical studies call:
r;T::1PURITAN I.iIIL::.J BENNETT 1-800-248-0890
n
o
I:
itz -o Z
®
CII
METHODS IN BRONCHIAL MUCOLOGY. Edited by PIER CARLO BRAGA and LlHGI ALLEGRA. New York: Raven Press, 1988,407 pp, $89.00 The editors' goal of providing a unique source of information on the major experimental and clinical methods used to study bronchial mucus-other (dated) treatises on the topic notwithstanding- has been achieved in this volume. Consequently, we may accept a priori the use of the neologism Umucology" and, after reading through the text. would even agree that the term is appropriate. Indeed, bronchial mucus is now being assessed by virtually all biomedical probes, from those that evaluate nuclei of relevant molecular conformations to those that look at the material as a conglomerate of diverse molecular species. However, rather early in the book. in the chapter Models of Mucus Structure, we are reminded ofa basic problem that all mucologists have to deal with normally, there may be no mucus at all, and a crying need is for definition of normal mucus. If this book does no more than stimulate further collaborative research. it will have achieved an unstated but equally important goal. The best Part of the book, the section on Biological Methods of Analysis, achieves this distinction on the basis of the format and coverage in each of its chapters, including methods for analysis, ciliary motion and mucus motion, as well as in vitro and electrophysiologic methods for studying processes of secretion and ionlliquid transfers. Each chapter (save one) sticks to a uniform format in which the topic is presented succinctly and critically; methods are described, evaluated and referenced in a useful and useable way for the reader, and commercially available resources are given where appropriate. Elsewhere the major sections are uneven (a problem inherent in multiauthored texts); one would have hoped for more stringent control by the editors. For example, the section on Physical Methods of Analysis, though comprehensive in subject titles, contains chapters that make for fascinating instruction including mathematical models, models of mucus structure, and two-phase gas-liquid flow; as well as chapters that are telegraphic in the extreme, such as mathematical analysis of viscoelasticity, the creep test and properties other than viscoelasticity and uadhesivity" (an unfortunate coinage for uadhesiveness"). The other major sections (Collecting and Measuring Methods, Chemical Methods, and Clinical Methods) bear the same burden to some degree, a burden which could but ultimately does not detract from the overall value of the book. Altogether, Methods in Bronchial Mucology is quite a compendium, one that will be appreciated by researcher and clinician. Where it is good, it is so good (even so far as to inform this reviewer that a sought-after measuring device can be fabricated by a vendor located in his own neighborhood) that the slips through the crack, though irritating, can be forgiven.
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Circulation Department
CHEST 911 Busse Highway Park Ridge, IL 60068-2375
Emile M. Scarpelli, M.D., Ph.D., New Hyde lbrk, New York
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