ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY - A PATTERN RECOGNITION APPROACH

Characterizing this work as more of a cookbook of aspiration cytology rather than a reference textbook or atlas, editor Renshaw (a staff pathologist at the Baptist Hospital of Miami) believes this volume will be of use to novice pathologists to movefrom an unfamiliar aspirate to the proper differential diagnosis. He does this by organizing the material around patterns instead of the entities that are the typical organizing principle of traditional cytology textbooks. The volume is organized to guide the cytologist from a pattern, through an appropriate work-up, around the pitfalls, and to the best diagnosis.