Abstract
This monograph is the fifth in the second series of the World Health Organization's International Histological Classification of Tumors of Domestic Animals. The text is concise, with an easy-to-read style, and the format is organized and user friendly. The expert authors have collaborated to produce a reference text that will be extremely useful to medical and veterinary pathologists working in the field of comparative pathology and to pathologists engaged in diagnostic veterinary pathology. The text is accurate and adequately covers the range of nervous system tumors encountered in domestic animals. Compared with the first series, this text is expanded to include updated classifications and subclassifications of tumors of the nervous system and ultrastructural and immunocytochemical findings. There are 59 color and black-and-white photomicrographs, most of which are extremely high quality. In this second series, a brief list of relevant references and a comprehensive index have been added, both of which enhance the value and accessibility of the text. Although by design this monograph does not include gross pathologic photographs or extensive reference lists such as are found in Veterinary Neuropathology (B. A. Summers, J. F. Cummings, and A. de Lahunta, Mosby, St. Louis, 1995), this excellent fascicle will serve as a quick and handy reference text for all those involved in the diagnosis of tumors of the nervous system in domestic animals.