42 HANDBUCH DER UROLOGIE 

 Vol. I. Anatomic und Embryologie 



1969 



By K. Conrad, H. Ferner, A. Gisel, Springer- Verlag 



H. V. Hayek, W. Krause, St. Wieser, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York 



and Chr. Zaki Price: DM 286.—; $ 71.50 

 637 pp., 363 figs. 



This is the first volume of an Encyclopedia of Urology that will ultimately 

 encompass more than 20 volumes. We focus our attention on the first part 

 of the present volume, "Die Entwicklung der Harn- und Geschlechtsorgane" 

 by H. von Hayek, Vienna. 



The author states that the last comprehensive review of the embryology 

 of the human urogenital system was that published by Felix in 1911. He has 

 consequently re-examined the whole subject personally with the help of the 

 extensive Hochstetter collection of serial sections of human embryos present 

 in Vienna. His study covers the first 50 pages of the book, and contains 

 47 excellent figures (line drawings, photomicrographs, and reconstructions). 

 Among them is a series of 10 photographs made by Hochstetter, showing the 

 external development of the genitalia. The literature list consists of 81 titles, 

 but strangely enough several references given in the text are missing in the 

 bibliography. 



The book as a whole is beautifully produced, as is usual with this publisher. 



43 THE ANATOMY OF THE DEVELOPING LUNG 



1969 

 Editor: J. L. Emery Heinemann Medical Books Ltd. 



223 pp., 103 figs., 6 tbs. London 



SBN 433 09300 5 

 Price: 55 s.; $ 7.— 



Contributors: Balis (Hines, 111.), Bucher (Bern), Conen (Toronto), Emery (Sheffield), 

 Pagan (Sheffield), de Haller (Davos-Dorf), Heath (Liverpool), Ivemark (Stockholm), Lind 

 (Stockholm), Mithal (Sheffield), Robertson (Stockholm) 



In this book no attempt is made to cover the whole anatomy of the lung 

 or to compete with recent handbooks in this field. It brings together a number 

 of contributions by persons working in the field of structural changes in the 

 lung of the growing fetus and the newborn, in order to facilitate the 

 correlation of physiological and anatomical data. Most of the authors are 

 not anatomists, but paediatricians and pathologists. 



On account of the specialized nature of the book, its 1 1 chapters will not 

 be reviewed in detail. The book is well printed and well illustrated. It is 

 concluded by a combined author and subject index. 



44 FEINSTRUKTUR DER PLAZENTA 

 Elektronenoptische Untersuchungen iiber die reifende 



und reife Plazenta der Ratte 

 1969 

 By H. Franke VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag 



340 pp., 19 figs., 5 tbs., 222 pis.. Jena 



5 loose plates Price: MDN 129.50 



This thorough work describes the ultrastructural organization of the rat 

 placenta, with special reference to the changes in fine structure during the 

 course of gestation. It is for the far greater part based on the author's own 

 research, carried out in the framework of investigations on the embryonic 



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