Book excerpt: This clear and concise reference book on surgical pathology is written for the pathologist who needs a well structured guide on specimen procedure and covers protocol for reporting results. It includes images of gross and microscopic pathology with correlating appearance of normal morphology and new sections providing points of differentiation between lesions with similar microscopic morphology. A section dedicated to Synoptic Histopathology Reporting and Minimum Data Sets outlines the responsibilities of a reporting pathologist in conveying to the clinician all relevant data for patient management.