Perinatal Diseases

The clinical features, biochemical, radiological and scan data are correlated in this atlas with alternating pages of histopathological colour plates. The sections are arranged in the fashionable problemsolving format. The colour pictures are of good quality, but neither they nor the references, which are up to date and mostly English language, are referred to in the text. Although originally published in Spanish, the quality of the English is excellent. The foreword by Fenton Schaffner suggests that the book is aimed primarily at pathologists for whom it should provide very necessary clinicopathological correlations. However, although it might achieve this to some extent, the actual histopathology is so superficial that I doubt whether many pathologists would find it useful. In particular there is virtually no discussion whatever of morphological features in differential diagnosis. Its main appeal is likely to be to postgraduates studying for higher examinations in medicine and surgery, for whom, however, it might prove rather expensive.