Atlas of Clinical Hematology [Hardcover]

-Enhanced 6th edition contains more illustrations and documented figures

-A perfect reference for hematological and oncological departments and the clincal labortory

-Classified findings from the World Health Organization

Techniques of Specimen Collection and Preparation.- Light Microscopic Procedures.- Overview of Cells in the Blood, Bone Marrow, and Lymph Nodes.- Blood and Bone Marrow.- Lymph Nodes and Spleen.- Tumor Aspirates from Bone Marrow Involved by Metastatic Disease.- Blood Parasites and Other Principal Causative Organisms of Tropical Diseases.- Further Important Causative Organisms of Tropical Diseases.

From the reviews of the sixth edition:

With over 1000 illustrations & the 6th revised edition & covers the whole spectrum of haematology. & The quality of the illustrations and the clarity of the accompanying texts make the Atlas a valuable companion to the haematology and oncology professions. (Cancer World, July-August, 2005)

1st ed., 1955; 2ne ed., 1972;  3rd ed. 1978; 4th ed., 1989; 5th ed., 2000.

Print-run/reprint of 5th edition:  2900 copies, thereof approx. 2325 copies sold as of May 2004.   

This 6th edition of the atlas has integrated the 2001 WHO classification and made use of figures and descriptions to document recently described types of leukemia and lymphoma. The latter include leukemias of dendritic cells, rare lymphomas and persistent polyclonal B lymphocytosis, which takes a special place in the classification.

The volume covers all the microscopic methods in hematology that form the basis of diagnosis as well as the results of modern immunologic, cytogenetic and molecular-genetic investigation. Special emphasis is placed on the cytogenetic and molecular-genetic characterization of biological entities that might form the basis for innol±