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Essential Haematology is established as the most authoritative introduction to the subject for bioscience and medical students, junior doctors, laboratory scientists and nurses. This new edition is beautifully presented, introducing the formation and function of blood cells, and diseases that arise from dysfunction and disruption of these processes. Basic science, diagnostic tests and clinical features and management are all easily explained.THE introductory text for clinical and laboratory haematologyAn authoritative and accessible textbook now fully revisedBeautifully presented - a joy to learn fromFeatures a new standardized approach to clinical features and management of diseaseTopTable of ContentsContentsPreface to fifth editionPreface to first editionBibliography1 Blood cell formation (haemopoiesis)2 Erythropoiesis and general aspects of anaemia3 Hypochromic anaemias and iron overload4 Megaloblastic anaemias and other macrocytic anaemias5 Haemolytic anaemias6 Genetic disorders of haemoglobin7 The white cells 1: granulocytes, monocytes and their benign disorders8 The white cells 2: lymphocytes and their benign disorders9 The spleen10 The aetiology and genetics of haematological malignancies11 Management of haematological malignancy12 Acute leukaemias13 Chronic myeloid leukaemia14 Myelodysplasia15 The chronic lymphoid leukaemias16 Hodgkin's lymphoma17 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma18 Multi myeloma and related disorders19 Myeloproliferative disorders20 Aplastic anaemia and bone marrow failure21 Stem cell transplantation22 Platelets, blood coagulation and haemostasis23 Bleeding disorders caused by vascular and platelet abnormalities24 Coagulation disorders25 Thrombosis and antithrombotic therapy26 Haematological changes in systemic disease27 Blood transfusion28 Pregnancy and neonatal haematologyAppendices1 Principal features of known cluster differentiation (CD) molecules2 Normal values3 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms