Das menschliche knochenmark, seine anatomie, physiologie und pathologie nach ergebnissen der intravitalen markpunktion. By Karl Rohr, 2nd edition, with 143 illustrations, some in color, 1-404 pp. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme, 1949. Price DM 47.50
✍ Scribed by Downey, Hal
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1950
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 421 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-276X
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✦ Synopsis
The first edition of the book was published in 1939. Few copies reached this country, so the second edition which has been revised and expanded should be a welcome addition to any medical library. It should be available to all clinicians and clinical pathologists who use bone marrow aspiration material. The numerous illustrations, many in color, make the book very useful even though the rather difficult German language of the author is not easily understood. Most of the illustrations are photomicrographs. Unfortunately the printing of some of these is too dark to show the finer nuclear details that are so important in this type of work. The colored illustrations are from paintings and are generally satisfactory.
Although the book is written primarily for the clinician and clinical pathologist it contains much information of value to the histologist and physiologist whose interest may be in normal marrow and its reactions under experimental conditions. General biological aspects are emphasized as are relations of marrow reactions to those of other hemopoietic organs. Citations of Literature are numerous and the bibliography is extensive. Results of the author's own bone marrow research extending over many years are emphasized, and the often