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Edited by Noel Weidner. 944 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $150. ISBN 0-7216-6464-4.

In the preface to this book, Dr. Weidner states that 5 to 10 percent of specimens routinely submitted to surgical pathology laboratories pose difficult diagnostic problems for the pathologist. He notes that a number of excellent textbooks on surgical pathology provide general information on a vast array of common lesions but not on uncommon lesions or difficult diagnostic situations. This book is intended to fill the gap.

Several of the chapters do indeed enhance the information in other surgical-pathology textbooks by providing differential diagnoses in a schematic way, so that a pathologist faced with a particular pattern on a slide . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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