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Article: Disorders of the Spleen.(Review)
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Disorders of the Spleen
2nd ed, edited by Richard S. Neiman and Attilio Orazi, 325 pp, with 245 illus, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1999.
This book is a high-quality, concise reference for the diseases of the spleen. Excluding postmortem spleens and those removed following traumatic incidents, which are usually healthy or show generalized congestion, most surgical pathologists and hematopathologists are not regularly exposed to specimens with significant pathologic changes. The authors truthfully state in the "Preface," "... the organ retains a degree of mystery for most physicians."
Traditionally, normal histology of the spleen has been ...