Brain Tumors: Their Biology and Pathology

TLDR

The book, an internationally recognized authority, remains unchanged in its main content and is tailored to clinicians' needs. It first covers general characteristics of brain tumors—classification, structure, incidence, localization, and displacement—then details gross and microscopic anatomy of individual tumor types with high‑quality illustrations. The author synthesizes extensive literature and experience, emphasizing diagnostic and prognostic relevance, and advocates a holistic morphological approach over sole cell‑type dependence.

Abstract

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 insists rightly upon the importance of avoiding too great a dependence upon the cell type alone for morphological diagnosis, and emphasizes the neces¬ sity of giving full consideration to the total archi¬ tecture of the tumor and its manner of growth. The remainder of the book is concerned with the gross and microscopic anatomy of the indi¬ vidual tumor types, illustrated by well chosen photographs of excellent technical quality. The new edition has been revised by the addition to the appropriate chapters of a brief resume of the re¬