The authors, a pathologist and a clinician, have assembled this atlas from more than 38,000 liver biopsies at the Stadtkrankenhaus in Kassel, Germany. This book supplements the<i>Lehrbuch und Atlas der Laparoskopie und Leberpunktion</i>published by Kalk and Wildhirt in 1962. Most of the illustrations are of excellent technical quality and illustrate well a broad spectrum of histologic changes in hepatic diseases, such as the various types of hepatitis and cirrhosis, and the hepatic changes in diabetes, alcoholism, drug-induced cholestasis, extrahepatic bile-duct obstruction, and other conditions. The legends of the illustrations include some laboratory data and a brief morphologic description. Transaminase activities were not available for some of the earlier biopsies, but in these cases the Takata-Ara and other obsolete tests give some orientation. Laparoscopic findings are heavily relied on. To the American reader who has a good command of the German language (no English summaries), the clinical and morphologic