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By Alan G. Rose
664 pp, $125
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-6879-2

JAMA. 2009;301(18):1935-1937.

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This textbook represents a single author's compilation of a variety of high-quality, color, well-reproduced gross photographs of organ pathology, with accompanying photomicrographs. The book is divided into 12 organ system chapters. Most pages contain 2 or 3 good-sized photographs, each accompanied by a short caption providing a concise description of the findings. A good number of the photographs have arrows or other indicators to help identify the area of interest. The presence of a measurement reference in the gross photographs is quite variable, with a simple ruler adjacent to the tissue being the usual method.

The "Cardiac Diseases" chapter begins with representations of many congenital disorders, including tetralogy of Fallot, anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, cor triatriatum, transposition of the great vessels, and congenital cardiac diverticulum. The acquired cardiac disease photographs represent a variety of endocarditis, prosthetic valves, atherosclerotic disease, myocardial infarctions, cardiomyopathies, rejected cardiac allografts, and unusual infectious diseases involving . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Bruce A. Jones, MD, Reviewer
Department of Pathology
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
bjones2@hfhs.org

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