Brain Tumors, Their Biology and Pathology.

For those unfamiliar with the first (1957) American edition of this exceptionally useful treatise on the pathology of intracranial tumors by an internationally recognized authority, the reviewer can only repeat his comments upon the earlier edition, for the main body of the work remains unchanged. In a comparatively short compass the author has managed to achieve a well balanced and discriminating systematic condensation of a huge literature and of his own wide experience in the pathology of brain tumors. The book is addressed to the needs and interests of clinicians. The first half of the work is devoted to the general characteristics of brain tumors: their classification, structure, age and sex incidence, preferential localization, and displacements of intracranial structures. These topics are discussed always with their diagnostic and prognostic significance in mind. Although the author's classification of the neuroepithelial tumors follows closely the histogenetic one of Bailey and Cushing, he