Book Review—Diagnostic immunohistochemistry, 5th edition

Excerpt

“Do we still need Textbooks? After all, it is common practice to solve everyday’s pressing problems through dedicated websites.” This is the first, basic question which comes to mind when dealing with “Dabbs’ Immunohistochemistry,” now reaching the 5th Edition. Not a manual, but a massive book (900+ pages, over 3000 figures, an infinite number of references, most of them to be retrieved online in order not to overweight the text). No doubt, the expansion along the different editions of this classical textbook represents the reflection of the inflationary evolution of the discipline, originally considered as an “ancillary” technique reserved for scientific academic research and it represents a testimony of the explosive evolution of immunohistochemistry (IHC) towards diagnostic, prognostic, theragnostic, and genomic applications. …