Color Atlas of Muscle Pathology.
Color Atlas of Muscle Pathology. Edited byw
j kenneth cumming, john fulthorpe, peter hudgson, and michael mahon. (Pp 202; price £95.00 hard back). London: Mosby Wolfe, 1994. ISBN 0-7234-2016-5.
The authors’ stated aim with this atlas is to produce a bench book of practical application for clinicians and pathologists. Chapters on technical aspects and general approaches to the muscle biopsy are followed by chapters covering groups of muscle disorders in a systematic fashion. Several useful appendices are included.
The overall presentation of the book is attractive and well set out. As befits an atlas, the illustrations, both colour photographs of histological sections and many electron micrographs, are mostly of high quality and convincingly demonstrate the features which the authors …
