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Edited by Christopher D.M. Fletcher. 1358 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1996. $295. ISBN 0-443-04295-0.

The diagnostic histopathologist makes judgments primarily on the basis of examining sections of tissue stained with hematoxylin and eosin and viewed under the light microscope. This process can be considered as an art from the point of view of analyzing the image, and as a science by which the image is placed in the context of a knowledge of pathobiology. This combination of art and science in diagnostic histopathology relies primarily on visual information. The presentation of such information on the histopathology of tumors is particularly successful in this two-volume work. In this new addition to the comprehensive textbooks of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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