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The Ear: Comprehensive Otology

This book is 180 pages, printed in large format (pages 8 1⁄2 3 11 inches) on excellent-quality paper. It is divided into two sections—site-specific diseases and non-sitespecific diseases. The first section contains about 120 pages. More than a third of the first section (45 pages) is devoted to the salivary gland, with the remaining pages covering thyroid, parathyroid, ear, larynx, sinonasal, skin, and fibrous tissue, and dental and bone. The second section covers a broad range of inflammatory, neoplastic, and other (amyloidosis, hemangioma, lymphangioma) disorders found in the head and neck. There is a detailed index. The book is organized with text on the left-hand pages and figures on the right-hand pages. The best part of this atlas is the wealth of excellent-quality color photomicrographs, with an average of four or five on each right-hand page. The authors maintain in the preface that this book is intended as a “color atlas” and not as a “pathology treatise.” They succeed admirably in their stated intent of visually showcasing a plethora of disease processes of the head and neck. They do not, however, provide basic comparison of normal to abnormal histology, nor do they discuss in detail histologic criteria, differential diagnosis, or pathognomonic features. Readers already familiar with the diagnostic criteria for the various pathologic processes may find themselves unable to discern the specific histologic features referred to in the legends. For example, a figure of salivary duct carcinoma (page 35) is described as “{manifesting a close resemblance to mammary duct carcinoma, including comedonecrosis.” This is not further elucidated in the text, leaving the reader wondering what mammary duct carcinoma looks like, what comedonecrosis looks like, which parts of the photomicrograph demonstrate these features, and why this is important. In another typical example, the legend of an olfactory neuroblastoma (page 87) states that the “olfactory differentiation is striking.” This reader is unclear about exactly what characteristics in the photomicrograph constitute “olfactory differentiation,” and the text does not clarify why this might be important. The atlas provides an excellent visual review of head and neck pathology for the physician already knowledgeable in the area. It will also be useful for the less experiences pathologist or surgeon interested in acquiring familiarity with the visual patterns of the various disease processes.