Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of

Book Reviews· 425

Pathophysiologie und Pathochemie in die Betrachtungen einbezogen und immer wieder Beziige zu klinischen Krankheitsbildern hergestellt. Vielfach ist es gelungen, klinische Krankheitsbilder als Ausdruck fundamentaler Funktionsstorungen verstandlich zu machen. Das Buch ist in gleicher Weise allen wissenschaftlich und allen klinisch tatigen Gastroenterologen zu empfehlen, bildet es doch eine Briicke zwischen beiden, die heute vielfach aneinander vorbei arbeiten. Der Preis ist angemessen.

Oehlert, Wolfgang: Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract./Klinische Pathologie des Magen-Darm-Traktes. Histologic Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis on Gastrointestinal Biopsy Material. XV, 619 pages with 432 figures, including 128 in color, and 71 tables. F. K. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart - New York 1978. Cloth.

"Clinical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract" by Oehlert presents a new concept for the integrated clinical pathologic representation of a disease group. The book is oriented around biopsy material from the gastrointestinal tract, and provides compact information for clinicians and pathologists as a "supplement to recently appearing handbooks of special pathology and internal medicine" and as a "continuation of endoscopic atlases", such as the English language clinicopathologic works on the gastrointestinal tract. In other words, this book fills a definite, existing need.

This is one of the rare works which systematically covers the biopsy-relevant disease entities of the gastrointestinal tract practically in a single volume by a single author. The goals of this book are brilliantly met in that the author approaches his book as a sort of conversation with the clinician with respect to a particular problematic or clear-cut histologic biopsy finding, and in this manner discusses the gastroenterologic disease entities in light of his clinicopathologic experience. The substantial clinical experience of the author is always convincingly apparent. The chapters on stomach and colon are excellent.

Problems arise when the author develops therapeutic principles and suggestions. This is cer­tainly a weakness of the book, which might possibly be overcome in futue editions by collabora­tion with a clinician. Thus surgical therapeutic directives such as "segmental resection of the colon for a polyp with an undifferentiated carcinoma" or "resection of the affected colon segment" for a polyp with carcinoma infiltrating the stalk (p. 449) or "relatively minor surgical intervention" for a mucosal carcinoma (so-called early carcinoma!) of the rectum are concepts which do not stand the test of rigorous surgical-oncologic criteria. These isolated weak points, however, do not detract from the highly informative value of this extraordinary book, but rather serve as points of discussion.

Thus this book may serve as the basis for interdisciplinary, clinicopathologic discussions. It is equally suited both for internists and for surgeons, as well as for pathologists. It sets a point of reference for the clinicopathologic colloquium, which in view of the ever more subtle and differ­entiated diagnoses and thus the ever more refined therapeutic indications have become a require­ment for the modern clinician.

Dahlin, David c.: Bone Tumors. General Aspects and Data on 6,221 Cases. Third Edition. XII, 445 pages with figures and tables. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield 1978. Geb.

The third edition of this book, which during the past 20 years has been regarded as an authoritative work on bone tumours, has now been published. Written by a renowned authority on bone tumours this book presents the results based on investigations and experiences made by the author himself. The book provides the diagnostic analyses drawn from a large group of