Gram-Positive Pathogens

Specimen handling is emphasised but exact descriptions of smear preparation are not provided.) The final three chapters deal with principles of safe practice, including the role of clinical cytology in patient management, medicolegal considerations, and the contentious issue of the relative merits of fine needle aspiration and core biopsy. The intervening chapters are about specific areas of concern in practice, such as cystic lesions, lymphoid infiltrates and small round cell tumors. It should be apparent that I like this book very much, and it does succeed in its purpose of restating the potential and problems of clinical cytopathology in a way that provides both orientation for the neophyte and advice for…