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Fourth edition. By Feroze N. Ghadially. 1414 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. Boston, Butterworth–Heinemann, 1997. $350. ISBN 0-7506-9635-4.

The fourth edition of Ghadially's Ultrastructural Pathology of the Cell and Matrix is as beautiful as its three predecessors. One may even wonder whether the format of a coffee-table art book would not have made the book even more appealing, because the attractions of this publication go beyond the interests of pathologists.

In the preface, Dr. Ghadially confesses that he started "playing" with the electron microscope more than three decades ago, when the instrument appeared unexpectedly at the University of Sheffield "as a sort of Christmas present." In 1963, such an instrument lent prestige to a department of pathology. At . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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