Wintrobe's clinical hematology.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wintrobe, Maxwell M. (Maxwell Myer), 1901-1986
Greer, John P.
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2009], ©2009.
Edition:Twelfth edition /
Subjects:
Physical Description:2 volumes (xxv, 2,606, I-47 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Variant Title:
Clinical hematology.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • V. 1: Examination of the blood and bone marrow
  • Clinical flow cytometry
  • Cytogenetics
  • Molecular biology and hematology
  • Origin and development of blood cells
  • Erythropoiesis
  • The mature erythrocyte
  • Destruction of erythrocytes
  • Neutrophilic leukocytes
  • The human eosinophil
  • Basophilic leukocytes: mast cells and basophils
  • Mononuclear phagocytes
  • Phagocytosis
  • Lymphocytes and lymphatic organs
  • B lymphocytes
  • T lymphocytes and natural killer cells
  • Effector mechanisms in immunity
  • Megakaryocytes
  • Platelet structure and function in hemostasis and thrombosis
  • Blood coagulation and fibrinolysis
  • Endothelium: angiogenesis and the regulation of hemostasis
  • Red cell, platelet, and white cell antigens
  • Transfusion medicine
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Gene therapy for hematologic disorders
  • Anemia: general considerations
  • Iron deficiency and related disorders
  • Sideroblastic anemias
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Porphyria
  • Hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis, and other disorders associated with abnormalities of the erythrocyte membrane
  • Hereditary hemolytic anemias due to red blood cell enzyme disorders
  • Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
  • Alloimmune hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
  • Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
  • Acquired nonimmune hemolytic disorders
  • Sickle cell anemia and other sickling syndromes
  • Thalassemias and related disorders: quantitative disorders of hemoglobin synthesis
  • Hemoglobins with altered oxygen affinity, unstable hemoglobins, M-hemoglobins, and dyshemoglobinemias
  • Megaloblastic anemias: disorders of impaired DNA synthesis
  • Inherited aplastic anemia syndromes
  • Acquired aplastic anemia
  • Red cell aplasia
  • Congenital dyserythropoietic anemias
  • Anemias secondary to chronic disease
  • Anemias during pregnancy and the postpartum period
  • Amemias unique to the newborn period
  • Erythrocytosis
  • V. 2: Diagnostic approach to the bleeding disorders
  • Thrombocytopenia: pathophysiology and classification
  • Thrombocytopenia casued by immunologic platelet destruction
  • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and related disorders
  • Miscellaneous causes of thrombocytopenia
  • Bleeding disorders caused by vascular abnormalities
  • Essential thrombocythemia and thrombocytosis
  • Qualitative disorders of platelet function
  • Inherited coagulation disorders
  • Acquired coagulation disorders
  • Thrombosis and antithrombotic therapy
  • Diagnostic approach to malignant and nonmalignant disorders of the phagocytic and immune systems
  • Neutropenia
  • Qualitative disorders of leukocytes
  • Abnormalities of the monocyte-marocphage system: the lysosomal storage diseases
  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis
  • Pathology of langerhans cell histiocytosis and other histiocytic proliferations
  • Infectious mononucleosis and other Epstein-Barr virus-related disorders
  • Primary immunodeficiency syndromes
  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Disorders of the spleen
  • Tumors of the spleen
  • Hematopoietic tumors: principles of pathologic diagnosis
  • Complications of hematopoietic neoplasms
  • Principles and pharmacology of chemotherapy
  • Immunotherapy
  • Supportive care in hematologic malignancies
  • Molecular genetics of acute leukemia
  • Diagnosis and classification of the acute leukemias and myelodysplastic syndrome
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adults
  • Acute myeloid leukemia in adults
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children
  • Acute myelogenous leukemia in children
  • Acute promyelocytic leukemia
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Pathology of the myeloproliferative diseases
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia
  • Polycythemia vera
  • Primary myelofibrosis
  • Systemic mastocytosis
  • Diagnosis and classification of lymphomas
  • Molecular genetic aspects of non-hodgkin lymphomagenesis
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in children
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
  • Hairy cell leukemia
  • Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: mycosis fungoides and sézary syndrome
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Practical aspects of the clinical approach to patients with monoclonal immunoglobulin disorders
  • Monoclonal gammopathies of undetermined significance and smoldering multiple myeloma
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis (primary amyloidosis)
  • Waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • Cryoglobulinemia and heavy chain disease.