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Diagnostic Atlas of Renal Pathology: a Companion to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney 7th Edition Agnes B. Fogo & Michael Kashgarian Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2005 480 pp., $209.00 ISBN: 1-416-02871-4
Fogo and Kashgarian are well-known and well-respected authors in the field of renal pathology. Their 480-page color atlas provides over 600 excellent illustrations, largely derived from their rich collection of clinical cases, acquired through decades of work in the field. This single volume is divided into six chapters with four chapters covering medical kidney diseases, including transplantation, and two relatively short chapters devoted to cystic diseases of the kidney and renal neoplasia. The format is very user-friendly. This atlas is designed as a companion to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney (7th edition) and, Therefore, both books follow the same organization of topics and each section of the atlas is cross-referenced to this major nephrology textbook. As expected of an atlas,...