Bone Marrow Diagnosis – An Illustrated Guide 3e

Bone Marrow Diagnosis, Third Edition, is an essential resource for pathologists and haematologists who need to report bone marrow trephine biopsies.

Practical and highly illustrated this edition has been comprehensively updated whilst remaining succinct and concentrating on the core information necessary to make an accurate diagnosis.

The text provides comparisons of the common methods of sample collection, fixation and staining, and a clear description of how to examine a trephine section. Applying a consistent approach, the chapters cover the range of disorders of bone marrow, discussing the clinical features, histopathology of bone marrow and diagnostic problems of each condition. Each chapter closes with a summary of key points and each diagnostic entity is accompanied by high quality images, over 900 in all, showing typical and more unusual examples of histological features.

This compact text, oriented at diagnosis and comprehensively accompanied by usable illustrations, is an invaluable reference tool for the trainee and practicing histopathologists, pathologists and haematologists.

A practical guide aimed at allowing a busy pathologist to easily find the essential description and illustration of the most common bone marrow diseases seen in trephinesCovers new treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia, B-cell lymphoma and antibody treatmentsHigh quality colour images accompany each diagnostic entityCoverage of cytology in sections relating to myeloid dysplasias and acute leukaemiasAddresses lymphoma categorization and individual lymphoma entitiesIncorporates new WHO classifications of lymphomas and leukaemias