Half a century ago our knowledge of mycoses, especially pulmonary mycoses, was rather fragmentary. It was limited to rare case reports as oddities. Accordingly, in the "Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologic" the chapter on lung diseases caused by budding and spore-forming fungi by J. W.ATJEN (Halle) took up as little as 27 pages. Only ARNDT (Gottingen) could report on several cases from which he made his observations on actinomycotic changes of the lungs and pleura. Since then our knowledge of mycoses has deepened and expanded in an unpre dictable manner. This progress was mainly due to research and publications in the USA and South America. In Central Europe the number of cases of mycoses has increased during the last two decades, being reported especially as a second disease in patients with spontaneous or iatrogenic destruction of the bone marrow after treatment of cancer with cytostatic agents. The number of known types of pathogenic fungi has increased. The knowledge of their types and conditions of growth have given rise to a subspecialty. Therefore, a great need has arisen for a new edition of the chapter on mycoses in the Henke Lubarsch-Roessle Handbook of Special Pathological Anatomy and Histology.

I: The Scope and General Pathology of Human Infection with Fungi, Actinomycetes, and Algae

II: Mycology of the Agents Producing Deep Mycoses
III: Ultrastructure of Human Pathogenic Fungi and Their Mycoses
IV: Histoplasmosis
V, Part 1: African Histoplasmosis
V, Part 2: African Histoplasmosis
VI: Coccidioidomycosis
VII: Dermal Pathology of Superficial Fungus Infections
VIII: Cryptococcosis
IX: North American Blastomycosis
X: Paracoccidioidomycosis
XI: Lôbo's Disease (Keloidal Blastomycosis)
XII: Mycetoma
XIII: Sporotrichosis
XIV: Rhinosporidiosis
XV: Subcutaneous Phycomycosis and Rhino-Entomophthoromycosis
XVI: Chromoblastomycosis (Chromomycosis)
XVII: Cladosporiosis of the Central Nervous Tissue
XVIII: Subcutaneous Abscesses due to Brown Fungi
XIX: Candidosis
XX: Aspergillosis
XXI: Mucormycosis (Opportunistic Phycomycosis)
XXII: Geotrichosis
XXIII: Miscellaneous Uncommon Diseases Attributed to Fungi and Actinomycetes
XXIV: Actinomycosis
XXV: Nocardiosis
XXVI: Protothecosis - Algal Infection.