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by Daniel M. Albert and Arthur Polans, 509 pp, ISBN 0-8247-4016-5, New York, NY, Marcel Dekker, Inc, 2003.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2005;123:584.

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Ocular Oncology is a textbook devoted to uveal melanoma and retinoblastoma. Its 40 contributing authors cover a variety of clinical and basic science topics. The subject of each of the 23 chapters can be roughly placed into 7 categories: epidemiology (2 chapters), clinical diagnosis and management (5 chapters), genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry (7 chapters) animal tumor models (3 chapters), tumor pathology (2 chapters), tumor immunology (2 chapters), and clinical trials (2 chapters).

The chapters on clinical diagnosis, management, and epidemiology are sufficiently thorough and authoritative to compete in quality with chapters from the leading multivolume textbooks in ophthalmology. The chapter on the pathology of retinoblastoma reviews in detail the histopathologic features of the tumor and its variants and discusses these in context of prognosis. The chapter on uveal melanoma is not a standard review of histopathology. The authors anticipate change in the role of anatomic pathology with the increased . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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