By George Lumb, M.D., Reader in Pathology, Westminster Medical School, London University; Consultant Pathologist, Westminster Hospital; Lecturer in Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons of England. With a Foreword by Sir Stanford Cade, K.B.E., C.B., D.Sc, F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., F.F.R., Senior Surgeon, Westminster Hospital. A volume of 204 pages, with numerous illustrations including photomicrographs in black and white and in color. Published by E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburgh & London; Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, Md., 1954. Price $8.00. This valuable monograph is essentially a clinical and pathologic study of a series of 410 patients with tumors of lymphoid tissue. The text is arranged in fourteen chapters. The first four of these furnish a general introduction to the work, taking up the structure and function of lymphoid tissue, the historical development of our knowledge of the subject, terminology and classification, and the incidence of these tumors. Following are six chapters devoted to tumors of lymphoid tissue, namely, follicular lymphoma, lymphosarcoma; reticular lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; reticulum-cell sarcoma; and anaplastic sarcoma of lymphoid tissue. The discussion of these tumors is brief but covers the main points of incidence, symptomatology, distribution, natural history, survival rate, pathology, and differential diagnosis. Many illustrations show the gross and microscopic pathology of the lesions. The book concludes with chapters on diagnostic problems and the effects of therapy of primary tumors of lymphoid tissue, followed by general conclusions and a few illustrative case reports. The chief emphasis in this work is clinical and pathologic, with but meager attention to radiologic aspects. It is, however, an excellent reference book and will be of particular value to those interested in the clinical management of lymphoid system tumors.
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