Book Review—Diagnostic pathology: bone, 2nd edition

Excerpt

The textbooks of Henry Jaffe, Kris Unni, Andrew Huvos and Joseph Mirra, respectively served for years to the pathology, orthopaedic and radiology community as icons for clinical use. All had different starting points: Jaffe’s first systematic book shared his vast experience of bone tumour pathology, described many of his newly discovered entities and offered a scholarly approach towards the diagnosis of bone tumours. Unni built upon the already large experience of his predecessor Dahlin and offered the experience of the large (consult) files of the Mayo Clinic. Huvos shared his large experience of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, especially of interest due to the birth of neoadjuvant chemotherapy at that clinic and the impact on the role of bone pathologist in the assessment of the effect of chemotherapy, next to the fact that it is the only textbook giving a systematic overview of the classic literature including the one from multilingual Europe—as such in itself a reference work for studying the pre-PubMed period. The book of Mirra added very didactical elements and diagnostic observations, especially useful for those not looking at bone tumours on a daily basis. …