Description

Excellent illustrations and the latest technology from theclinic, practice and laboratory are compiled for both thepracticing urologist and the researching cytopathologist inthe book "Urinary Cytology." The completely revised andup-dated text in the new second edition reflects the firstcommon effort of urologists, pathologists andcytopathologists to find a unified concept: fromconventional cytology to electron microscopy toflowcytometry.The authors' main emphasis is on conveying practicaltechniques for the collection, concentration, fixation,staining and analysis of cellular material. They clearlydiscuss the circumstances under which new techniques areadvisable and the relevance of these techniques whendifficult questions of detail arise. At the same time, basicscientific principles arepresented in comprehensible form.The atlas section gives examples of urologic cytology,compares pathological with normal results, discusses theproblems in differential diagnosis and points the way tosolutions.