This book provides a basic knowledge of the clinical and laboratory aspects of haematological diseases and blood transfusion. In this new edition the clinical aspects have been revised, especially the leukaemias and malignant disorders. There are now colour plates to illustrate various aspects of normal and abnormal blood and bone marrow smears. The book is in tended for medical students.
Haemopoiesis and blood cells; Anaemia and polycythaemia - general
considerations; Haemolytic anaemias; Haemolytic disease of the newborn; Iron
metabolism, iron deficiency anaemia and other hypochromic microcytic
anaemias; Macrocytosis and macrocytic anaemia; Abnormalities of white cells;
Chronic myeloproliferative disorders; Aplastic anaemia; Myeloma, other
paraproteinaemias and lymphoma; Haemostasis and abnormal bleeding; Blood
transfusion; Basic haematological techniques and normal values.
