• A brand-new chapter on the examination of body fluids.
• Full color throughout.

• Complete coverage of red blood cells, white blood cells, hemostasis, and thrombosis.
• Chapters on flow cytometry and molecular diagnosis.
• Thorough discussion of anemias.
• Case histories demonstrate the link between the test and the patient to foster critical thinking.
• Laboratory methods section includes chapters on routine hematology methods, automated differential analysis, cytochemistry, and more.
• More than 900 illustrations, including 309 full-color microphotographs.
• Chapter Outline and Educational Objectives at the beginning of each chapter
• Study Questions and answers for each chapter.
• Table of normal hematologic values on the inside covers
• Glossary for easy access to definitions for medical terms unique to hematology and hemostasis.
• Summary charts provide quick review, enhancing readability

I.    Introduction to Clinical Hematology

1. Morphology of Human Blood and Marrow Cells: Hematopoiesis
2. Bone Marrow
3. The Red Blood Cell: Structure and Function
4. Anemia: Diagnosis and Clinical Considerations
5. Evaluation of Cell Morphology and Introduction to Platelet and White Cell Morphology

II.    Anemias

6. Iron Metabolism and Hypochromic Anemias
7. Megaloblastic Anemias
8. Aplastic Anemia Including Pure Red Cell Aplasia and Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia and Paroxysmal Noctural Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
9. Introduction to Hemolytic Anemias: Intracorpuscular Defects: I. Hereditary Defects of the Red Cell Membrane
10. Hemolytic Anemias: Intracorpuscular Defects: II. Hereditary Enzyme Deficiencies
11. Hemolytic Anemias: Intracorpuscular Defects: III. The Hemoglobinopathies
12. Hemolytic Anemias: Intracorpuscular Defects: IV. Thalassemia
13. Hemolytic Anemias: Extracorpuscular Defects
14. Hypoproliferative Anemia: Anemia Associated with Systemic Diseases

III.  White Blood Cell Disorders

15. Cell Biology, Disorders of Neutrophils, Infectious Mononucleosis, and Reactive Lymphocytosis
16. Introduction to Leukemia and the Acute Leukemias
17. Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders: I. Chronic Myclogenous Leukemia
18. Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders: II. Polycythemia Vera, Essential Thrombocythemia, and Idiopathic Myelofibrosis
19. Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
20. chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Related Lymphoproliferative Disorders
21. The Lymphomas
22. Mutiple Myeloma and Related Plasma Cell Disoders
23. Lipid (Lysosomal) Storage Diseases and Histiocytosis

IV.  Hemostasis and Introduction to Thrombosis

24. Introduction to Hemostasis
25. Disorders of Primary Hemostasis: Quantitative and Qualitative Platelet Disorders and Vascular Disorders
26. Disorders of Plasma Clotting Factors
27. Interaction of the Fibrinolytic, Coagulation, and Kinin Systems: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation; and Related Pathology
28. Introduction to Thrombosis and Anticoagulant Therapy

IV. Laboratory Methods

29. Quality Control in the Hematology Laboratory
30. Body Fluid Examination: The Qualitative, Quantitative, and Morphologic Analysis of Serous, Cerebrospinal, and Synovial Fluids
31. Hematology Methods
32. Principles of Automated Differential Analysis
33. Coagulation Procedures
34. Applications of Flow Cytometry to Hematology and Hemostasis
35. Molecular Diagnostic Techniques in Hematopathology
36. Special Stains/Cytochemistry

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