Main description:

Many pathologists have little acquaintance with ear, nose concomitant biopsy have become commonplace in the and throat pathology. Some receive few specimens from management of throat disorders. It is hoped that. by ENT tissues; others are deterred from deeper study of the publication of this Atlas, pathologists receiving only material that emanates from regions the normal anatomy occasional specimens will be guided in their provision of of which is so forbidding in its complexity and holds no a report helpful to the clinician and those who are involved familiarity through autopsy investigation, for, apart from with a larger ENT service may be providec with a guide the larynx, there is usually no compelling indication for to the deeper understanding of the subject. examination of the ear, nose or throat at postmortem. Yet. The modern tendency in publication of ristopatholog equally with biopsy specimens from other parts of the ical microphotographs is to omit any statement of their body, the pathologist's report is consequential for the magnification, since it will usually be clear to the reader efficient handling of ear, nose and throat illnesses and what order of enlargement is involved. I n this Atlas, sometimes even for the patient's survival.

Contents:

1 Normal ear.- 2 Non-neoplastic conditions of the external and middle ear.- 3 Neoplasms of the ear.- 4 Inner ear.- 5 Normal histology and inflammatory conditions of the nose and paranasal sinuses.- 6 Epithelial and neuroectodermal neoplasms of the nose and paranasal sinuses.- 7 Non-epithelial and metastatic neoplasms of the nose and paranasal sinuses.- 8 Nasopharynx.- 9 Palatine tonsil and oropharynx.- 10 Normal anatomy, histology and heterotopia of the larynx.- 11 Infections and non-infective inflammatory conditions of the larynx.- 12 Squamous cell neoplasms of the larynx.- 13 Non-epidermoid epithelial, neuroectodermal and mesenchymal neoplasms of the larynx.