This Atlas of Oral PathologV is intended primarily as a ances where
appropriate and reproduce relevant radio- graphs. Every pathologist who
deals with bone specimens bench companion for the general diagnostic
pathologist. especially the trainee. It has not been designed to cover
will know the value of radiographs, and some indeed are the subject
fully and in detail, nor does it enter into the reluctantto make a
diagnosis in their absence. In addition, radiographs may give a good
idea of the extent aFld other more theoretical aspects. Since the book
is essentially an atlas the text has been features of a lesion that may
be represented in the first kept to a minimum, but in it we have tried
to adopt'a instance only by a small biopsy specimen. practical approach,
with special regard to differential diag- While many of the
illustrations have been made from nosis. We have made some remarks about
the clinical sections freshly cut and stained for the purpose, others
features of the various conditions dealt with, since this have been
prepared from stained sections already in our may help the pathologist
to appreciate what is in the refer- files and since, in addition, the
material comes principally ring clinician's mind in an area with which
the pathologist from two departments, as well as from outside sources,
may not be particularly familiar.