Book Review

This is a concise but comprehensive synopsis of morphologic alterations in exfoliated cells that is written for cytotechnologists and graduate students. Details on disease processes, physiology, and theory are held to the barest minimum, with the expectation that the reader will refer to other textbooks, perhaps Koss's Diagnostic Cytology (Third edition, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1979). This frugality seems to be too extreme in places. For example, malacoplakia is referred to only as a "chronic disease," rather than a condition that produces yellow plaques in the bladder. Yet all organ systems are covered, including synovia and the eye. There are also . . .