Blood Cells: A Practical Guide

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited

Number Of Pages: 488

Publication Date: 2006-06-01

Sales Rank: 62710

ISBN / ASIN: 1405142650

EAN: 9781405142656

Binding: Hardcover

Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited

Studio: Blackwell Publishing Limited

Average Rating: 5

Total Reviews: 1

Description

Blood Cells has been written with both the practising haematologist and the trainee in mind. It aims to provide a guide for use in the diagnostic haematology laboratory, covering methods of collection of blood specimens, blood film preparation and staining, the principles of manual and automated blood counts and the assessment of the morphological features of blood cells. The practising haematologist should find this book sufficiently comprehensive to be a reference source while, at the same time, the trainee haematologist and biomedical scientist should find it a straightforward and practical bench manual.

Enables both the haematologist and laboratory scientist to identify blood cell features, from the most common to the more obscure

Provides essential information on methods of collection, blood film preparation and staining, together with the principles of manual and automated blood counts

Completely revised and updated, incorporating much newly published information: now includes advice on further tests when a specific diagnosis is suspected

Four hundred high quality photographs to aid with blood cell identification

Highlights the purpose and clinical relevance of haematology laboratory tests throughout

Table of Contents

1 Blood Sampling and Blood Film Preparation and Examination

2 Performing a Blood Count

3 Morphology of Blood Cells

4 Detecting Erroneous Blood Counts

5 Normal Ranges

6 Quantitative Changes in Blood Cells

7 Important Supplementary Tests

8 Disorders of Red Cells and Platelets

9 Disorders of White Cells

Index

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.