The third edition of this popular pocket book,
A Beginner’s Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology.
- Includes a brand new chapter on emergency morphology, designed to make the clinical significance and urgency of certain laboratory findings clear for biomedical scientists and to assist trainee haematologists in the recognition of major clinically important abnormalities
- Contains exceptional full colour images throughout
- Introduces important basic concepts of hematology, setting haematological findings in a clinical context
- Provides a fully updated self-assessment section
- An essential resource for trainee haematologists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical science and medical students
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| Abbreviations |
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1 The Blood Film and Count |
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17 | (3) |
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20 | (2) |
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How to examine a blood film |
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22 | (7) |
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29 | (16) |
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Assessing red cell number and distribution (anaemia, polycythaemia, rouleaux formation, red cell agglutination) |
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29 | (3) |
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Assessing red cell size (microcytosis, macrocytosis, anisocytosis) |
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32 | (1) |
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Assessing red cell shape (poikilocytosis) |
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Assessing red cell colour (hypochromia, hyperchromia, anisochromasia, polychromasia) |
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Detecting red cell inclusions (Pappenheimer bodies, basophilic stippling, Howell-Jolly bodies) |
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41 | (2) |
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The full blood count in red cell assessment |
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43 | (2) |
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3 Assessing White Cells and Platelets |
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Assessing white cell and platelet numbers |
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45 | (1) |
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Assessing neutrophil morphology |
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46 | (5) |
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Assessing lymphocyte morphology |
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51 | (2) |
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Assessing morphology of monocytes, eosinophils and basophils |
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53 | (1) |
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Assessing platelet morphology |
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4 Haematological Findings in Health and Disease |
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The blood film and count in healthy individuals |
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Abnormalities of red cells |
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56 | (21) |
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Abnormalities of white cells |
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5 Emergency Morphology: The Relevance of the Full Blood Count and Blood Film in Acute Illness |
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Thrombotic microangiopathy and microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia |
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98 | (2) |
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Kidney injury and disease |
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105 | (2) |
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Acute hepatic damage and liver failure |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (1) |
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Bacterial infection and other causes of leucocytosis |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (3) |
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Pancytopenia and leucoerythroblastic blood films |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (3) |
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PROFESSOR BARBARA BAIN, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPath, Professor of Diagnostic Haematology, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Consultant Haematologist, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
