Histology Sobotta / Hammersen

The objective of this Atlas is to teach the student to recognize and differentiate between micro- scopic structures and to provide visual guidelines during the practical phase of a histology course. It resumes the tradition of the once famous "Atlas and Textbook of Histology and Microscopic Anatomy" by Sobotta from which it still contains a series of color-drawings.The arrangement of illustrations parallels the sequence in which structures are discussed in most histology courses, and most of the specimens are shown with the staining commonly used for them. Special stains, such as those used in histochemical techniques and in a number of rare and extraordinary preparations, allow for a particularly clear demonstration of cytologic details, but these have been intentionally omitted.Today's student of histology is required to interpret original electron micrographs, which are the morphologic basis of, and indispensable to, modern biology.Illustrations in the chapters on "Histology" and "Microscopic Anatomy", except for the electron micrographs, consist exclusively of color prints from slides specially prepared for this purpose. An introductory and correlative demonstration of the most common staining procedures and artifacts is followed by illustrations of the various tissues and organs, including low-power views of the specimens. Furthermore, tissues and organs that are easily and frequently confused with each other, c.g., some of the exocrine glands, are compared to facilitate identification of distinguishing diagnostic criteria. For the same reasons, the legends to the figures are more elaborate, going beyond a simple description of the structures shown in the micrograph being described. Special emphasis is given therein to some of the basic functional relationships and to features characteristic of a tissue or organ and therefore of particular importance in differential diagnosis. These are also summarized in the tables.