A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells
Barbara J. Bain
Wiley-Blackwell
3
2018
en
9781119367833
- 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
Preface, vii Abbreviations, ix
1 The Blood Film and Count x
The blood film
The blood count
Normal ranges
How to examine a blood film
Interpreting a blood film
2 Assessing Red Cells xx
Number and distribution
Size – microcytosis and macrocytosis
Shape
Colour ‒ hypochromia, hyperchromia, anisochromasia, polychromasia Inclusions ‒ Pappenheimer bodies, basophilic stippling, Howell‒Jolly bodies, parasites
The blood count in assessing red cells
3 Assessing White Cells and Platelets xx
White cell and platelet numbers
Neutrophil morphology
Lymphocyte morphology
Monocyte, eosinophil and basophil morphology
Platelet morphology
4 Haematological Findings in Health and Disease xx
The blood count and film in health
Abnormalities of red cells
Polycythaemia
Anaemia
Abnormalities of white cells
Neutrophil leucocytosis
Lymphocytosis and abnormal lymphoid cells
5 Emergency morphology xx
The relevance of the blood count and blood film in acute illness
Thrombocytopenia
Thrombotic microangiopathy and microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia
Other acute anaemia
Kidney injury and disease
Acute hepatic damage and liver failure
Acute leukaemia
Bacterial infection and other causes of leucocytosis
Eosinophilia
Lymphocytosis
Malaria
Neutropenia
Pancytopenia and leucoerythroblastic blood films
6 Self-assessment xx
Index xxx
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