HEMATOLOGY AND COAGULATION

A ComprehensiveReview for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice 
By Amer Wahed, Professor of Pathology andLaboratory Medicine, Universityof Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, USAand AmitavaDasgupta, Professor, Pathologyand Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

FEATURES

• Takes a practical and easy-to-read approach to understanding hematology and coagulation at an appropriate level for both board preparation as well as a professional refresher course

• Covers all important clinical information found in larger textbooks in a more succinct and easy-to-understand manner

• Covers essential concepts in hematopathology in such a way that fellows and clinicians understand the methods without having to become specialists in the field

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Complete blood count (CBC) and peripheral blood smear examination
2. Bone marrow examinationand interpretation
3. Red blood cell(RBC) disorders
4. Hemoglobinopathies, and thalassemias  
5. Benign white blood cell (WBC) and platelet disorders
6. Myeloid neoplasms7.Monoclonal gammopathy and theirdetection
8.Application of flow cytometry in diagnosisof hematological disorders9. Cytogenetics abnormalities and hematological neoplasa10. Benign lymph nodes11. B cell lymphomas 
12. T cell and natural killer cell (NK) lymphomas 
13.Hodgkin lymphoma
14. Lymphoproliferative Disorders Associated with Immune deficiencies, Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasms
15. Essentialsof coagulation
16. Thrombophilia and their detection 17.Sources of errors in hematologyand coagulation