The Quick Guide to Hematology Testing is a
speedy reference for anyone who orders, performs, or interprets hematology
laboratory tests, including complete blood counts, bone marrow aspirate and
biopsies, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and molecular diagnosis. Clear
understanding of the significance of hematology laboratory results is critical,
and awareness of the effect of confounding factors leads to clinically sound
interpretations.
The Guide's pocket size provides immediate access at the time and
place that tests are ordered, performed, and interpreted. The text discusses
benign and malignant conditions of the three cell lineages, including anemias,
leukemias, and thrombocytopenia, emphasizing their diagnosis, treatment, and
laboratory-based treatment monitoring. Disease descriptions and assays are
adjacent so that all conditions may be correlated. The extensively updated
second edition has new sections and expands on newly described phenotypes and
genotypes of hematologic disorders and new methods, providing a current list of
cell markers and mutations.
Although the Guide reviews clinical conditions, treatment, and
laboratory assays, it should not be used alone to make final diagnoses. Many
current references are provided for further reading. The authors' local
experience helps make the Guide a valuable resource for physicians,
physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and medical
laboratory scientists.