Ocular Pathology: A Color Atlas,

Ocular Pathology: A Color Atlas,

Mayo Clin Proc, June 1988, Vol 63 tion of difficult problems are those on renal tumor pathologic changes, congenital mesoblastic nephroma and nephrob...

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Mayo Clin Proc, June 1988, Vol 63

tion of difficult problems are those on renal tumor pathologic changes, congenital mesoblastic nephroma and nephroblastomatosis, both the chapters on rhabdomyosarcoma, and the one dealing with testicular tumors in childhood. Chapter 15 reviews the genetic aspects of these tumors; it is both timely and useful and clearly delineates both the basis and the benefits of collaboration between clinical and basic researchers. The last chapter, "Coping With Cancer in Childhood: Support for the Family Unit," should be of considerable interest not only to families with a child who has cancer but also to all physicians and surgeons who deal with these tumors. The study of pediatric tumors of the genitourinary tract is a rapidly changing field, and, as is often the case with multiauthored books, not all the chapters in this text contain up-to-date information. Some chapters cite only contributions that are several years old and, therefore, cannot be used as a clinical reference to the most current information available on the management of children with these tumors. Fortunately, such chapters are few. Panayotis P. Kelalis, M.D. Department of Urology

Retinal Dystrophies and Degenerations, edited by David A. Newsome, 382 pp, with illus, $110, New York, Raven Press, 1988 This book is a compilation of work on retinal dystrophies and degenerations. Twenty wellknown authors contributed to the text, and many of the chapters were written by the editor, David Newsome, himself. The 382-page volume includes 21 chapters and numerous illustrations in both black and white and color. Each of the chapters contains an extensive bibliography, and the illustrations and diagrams are first rate. The first part of the book is devoted to clinical and laboratory methods of retinal evaluation and deals with such topics as biomicroscopy, methods of vitreoretinal examination, electroretinal physiology, and genetics. The remainder of the text presents clinical approaches to retinal degenerations and describes the following disorders: hereditary vitreoretinal degenerations, drusen, macular dystrophies, fundus flavimaculatus, retinitis pigmentosa, pigment epithelial dystrophies,

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cone degenerations, pathologic myopia, angioid streaks, choroideremia, peripheral retinal degenerations, albinism, retinal dystrophies and storage diseases, toxins and nutritional retinopathies, retinopathy of prematurity, and ocular toxoplasmosis. This up-to-date book includes the latest advances in diagnostic techniques for vitreoretinal diagnosis. Many references on the history of these disorders, as well as current concepts and therapeutic modalities, are provided. This text is a must for residents in ophthalmology. It is both concise and thorough and offers state-of-the-art information on retinal dystrophies and degenerations. I highly recommend it to residents in ophthalmology and practitioners in the field and congratulate the editor and contributors on a magnificent text. Brian R. Younge, M.D. Department of Ophthalmology

Ocular Pathology: A Color Atlas, by Myron Yanoff and Ben S. Fine, 248 pp, with illus, $95, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1988 A color atlas of ophthalmic pathology has long been needed; the first, published in 1966, has been out of print for many years. This new production is intended to serve as a companion to the text, Ocular Pathology: A Text and Atlas, written by the same authors. Of note, its dedication is to the memory of Paul Henkind, an ophthalmologist with a keen interest in pathology and whose work in clinicopathologic correlation contributed greatly to the better understanding of ophthalmic disease processes. The format of this atlas is similar to that of the authors' initial text; it consists of 18 chapters with the same subject titles as used previously. Each chapter has a brief introduction, which is followed by a series of illustrations that consist of clinical photographs and corresponding photographs of gross tissue and photomicrographs. An occasional fluorescein angiogram and magnetic resonance imaging picture are included. Liberal use has been made of labeled diagrams and tables, and the tabular information is a helpful reminder of differential diagnoses. The authors have managed to include a prodigious number of photographs and yet contain the cost and the size of the book. Both the clinical

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and the gross photographs are outstanding. era and lens, light and metering, film, and proThose in training will find the use of labeled jection equipment and design. These contribudiagrams that accompany many of the photo- tions are brief but informative and seem to cover micrographs most helpful but will probably wish all the important points. The remaining topics that more had been included. The trained pathol- include editing and slide sorting, as well as ethiogist will have some difficulty in recognizing cal considerations in the medicolegal aspects of details in the low-power photographs. Although photographing patients and photographic record low-power photography is needed in most in- keeping. stances for orientation, the quality of many of The excellent chapter on intraoral photography these pictures is poor because of a combination contains outstanding photographic demonstraof inadequate differential staining of the initial tions. The chapter on operating room photogsection and inappropriate positioning of the con- raphy is basically a summary of the entire book denser or the iris diaphragm (or both). but is somewhat disappointing insofar as photoThe uninitiated may be confused and the ex- graphic examples of the topics under discussion perienced pathologist will take exception to some are concerned. Additional photographs and less errors within the text and also within the legends. textual material would have been more instructive. For example, basal cell carcinoma is not conThis is a concise and informative book on clinisidered by most to be a primary tumor of the cal photography that should benefit interested conjunctiva, nor are hemangiopericytoma and plastic surgeons and clinical specialists who wish hemangiosarcoma considered to be hamartomas. to have repeatable, understandable photographic Some readers may take exception to the term evidence of clinical situations. The information "reticulum-cell sarcoma." Some errors may have presented and the suggestions made in this small been introduced in the editorial process, such as but easy-to-understand book should be available in the table of postradiation-induced tumors that to all physicians who keep photographic records, includes benign mesenchymal entities such as particularly those who wish to describe condilipoma and chondroma. These disparities with tions of patients to their colleagues in medical basic pathologic concepts may be recognized only presentations. I recommend this reasonably priced by the experienced. text to anyone interested in accurate photographic records—and we all should be. Despite these discrepancies within the text and the variation in quality of the photomicrographs, the book may be recommended for the quality of Phillip G. Arnold, M.D. the clinical and gross photographs and for the Section of Plastic and innovative use of labeled diagrams and the sumReconstructive Surgery mation tables. R. Jean Campbell, M.B.,Ch.B. Division of Pathology and Department of Ophthalmology

Clinical Photography in Plastic Surgery, edited by Gerald D. Nelson and John L. Krause, Jr., 155 pp, with illus, $42.50, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1988 Ten topics related to photography in plastic surgery are covered in this 150-page-plus book. A general discussion of the photography of patients is provided by Nelson in a concise introductory chapter. Four additional chapters deal with photographic equipment including the cam-

Office Gynecology, 3rd ed, edited by Robert H. Glass, 362 pp, with illus, $47.95, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1988 The first edition of Office Gynecology was published slightly more than a decade ago. The appearance of a third edition is welcome and attests to the book's usefulness as well as to the number of clinically significant advances that have occurred in recent years. The strength of the book is that each of the 19 chapters of 10 to 30 pages is written by a respected authority. Each author concisely presents current concepts regarding definition, pathophysiology, and a logical approach to the clinical evaluation of each disorder for diagnostic pur-