Blood Cells: A Practical Guide - Hardcover

Bain, Barbara J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039744558X ISBN 13: 9780397445585

Publisher: Mosby Inc

Synopsis

A comprehensive explanation of the preparation and interpretation of blood films and blood counts. Designed to be used in the laboratory, special emphasis is placed on morphology and normal and abnormal characteristics are fully illustrated with colour photographs and explanatory line-drawings.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This volume is a text-atlas designed for haematologists, pathologists and laboratory staff in training and in practice. The first edition was published by Times Mirror, and sold 3000 copies. This edition is changed substantially in that the chapters on technical aspects which originally introduced the book are now integrated into consistent sections to cover what the disease is, what films to obtain, which counts to do, differential diagnosis, and which further tests should now be performed. In integrating and shortening the technical material and eliminating "simpler" material covering normal ranges and typical blood counts, the author brings a stronger clinical emphasis to the book, gives a 20% increase in the text, with 5-10% more pictures.

About the Author

Professor Bain's research interests are ethnic and other biological differences in haematological variables and cytogenetics in relation to haematological malignancy. She has a major interest in teaching, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as in the development of teaching resources such as videos, slide sets, websites and CD-ROMs and the development of teaching courses for haematologists, haematology trainees haematopathologists, medical laboratory scientists and cytogeneticists. Amongst other collaborations with experts in the field, she has devised the WHO classification of tumours of the lymphoid haemopoietic systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby Inc
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039744558X
• ISBN 13: 9780397445585
• Binding: Hardcover