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Overview
Hematologists/oncologists rely heavily upon the discipline of hematopathology for the care and management of their patients. Whether interpreting a lymph node or bone marrow biopsy, directing a high throughput automated hematology laboratory, or translating testing modalities from the research bench to the clinical laboratory, hematopathologists and other laboratory medicine specialists provide a steady stream of critical data for the clinical practitioner. Recently the rapid advances in diagnosis and treatment of hematological disorders including the need to evaluate patients eligibility for and monitor responses to rapidly evolving targeted therapies have made the close collaboration between pathologists and clinician practitioners even more essential.Synopsis
- Provides the reader with insight into the emerging roles of the pathologist and clinical labortory
- This volume includes all the latest concepts in the field
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Valerie L. Ng, PhD MD(Alameda County Medical Center/Highland Hospital)
Description:This book consists of state-of-the-art chapters on selected topics in hematopathology/hematology as relates to oncology.
Purpose:The purpose of this book is to present selected topics in this area, including current diagnostic and treatment modalities in this rapidly evolving field. The authors have succeeded admirably in achieving their goal.
Audience:This book would appeal greatly to practicing hematopathologists, laboratory hematologists, clinical hematologists and oncologists, and all individuals in related subspecialty training programs (i.e., internal medicine subspecialties of hematology/oncology, laboratory medicine/pathology subspecialties of hematology or hematopathology).
Features:The 11 chapters cover (in keeping with the title) only selected topics. Although this book is by no means a comprehensive text of all hematopathology/hematology, it certainly covers each topic in depth and comprehensively. The first chapter on gene expression analysis in leukemias and lymphomas is very helpful to bring the reader up to speed on the latest technological applications (e.g., microarrays) and the clinical significance of the findings. Subsequent chapters focus on a single topic, and nicely blend and contrast historical information with current concepts of the particular disease. The chapter on myeloproliferative/myelodysplastic syndromes has an excellent discussion on chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), with emphasis on the key features distinguishing the myeloproliferative form from the myelodysplastic form. The chapter on plasma cell dyscrasias is probably one of the best I've seen; there is no question that it presents a state-of-the-art discussion of this group of baffling disorders. Finally, I was quite impressed to read about total laboratory automation in the laboratory hematology chapter and the excellent discourse on why such automation hasn't made more headway in clinical hematology laboratories. In short, this book has a seamless blend of laboratory and clinical information - a quintessential laboratory medicine type of book. My only general disappointment was the lack of high quality color photomicrographs of the various disease states. Black-and-white photomicrographs illustrate the concepts adequately, but color would have made this book completely irresistible.
Assessment:This is an excellent addition to the library of any practicing clinical or laboratory hematologist, hematopathologist, or oncologist.
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From The Critics
Reviewer: Valerie L. Ng, PhD MD(Alameda County Medical Center/Highland Hospital)Description: This book consists of state-of-the-art chapters on selected topics in hematopathology/hematology as relates to oncology.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to present selected topics in this area, including current diagnostic and treatment modalities in this rapidly evolving field. The authors have succeeded admirably in achieving their goal.
Audience: This book would appeal greatly to practicing hematopathologists, laboratory hematologists, clinical hematologists and oncologists, and all individuals in related subspecialty training programs (i.e., internal medicine subspecialties of hematology/oncology, laboratory medicine/pathology subspecialties of hematology or hematopathology).
Features: The 11 chapters cover (in keeping with the title) only selected topics. Although this book is by no means a comprehensive text of all hematopathology/hematology, it certainly covers each topic in depth and comprehensively. The first chapter on gene expression analysis in leukemias and lymphomas is very helpful to bring the reader up to speed on the latest technological applications (e.g., microarrays) and the clinical significance of the findings. Subsequent chapters focus on a single topic, and nicely blend and contrast historical information with current concepts of the particular disease. The chapter on myeloproliferative/myelodysplastic syndromes has an excellent discussion on chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), with emphasis on the key features distinguishing the myeloproliferative form from the myelodysplastic form. The chapter on plasma cell dyscrasias is probably one of the best I've seen; there is no question that it presents a state-of-the-art discussion of this group of baffling disorders. Finally, I was quite impressed to read about total laboratory automation in the laboratory hematology chapter and the excellent discourse on why such automation hasn't made more headway in clinical hematology laboratories. In short, this book has a seamless blend of laboratory and clinical information - a quintessential laboratory medicine type of book. My only general disappointment was the lack of high quality color photomicrographs of the various disease states. Black-and-white photomicrographs illustrate the concepts adequately, but color would have made this book completely irresistible.
Assessment: This is an excellent addition to the library of any practicing clinical or laboratory hematologist, hematopathologist, or oncologist.
4 Stars! from Doody