Williams Manual of Hematology, Ninth Edition: Edition 9
About this ebook
Williams Manual of Hematology, Ninth Edition provides a quick-access summary of the epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, and therapy of blood cell and coagulation protein disorders. The 93 chapters of the Manual are a distillation of the disease- and therapy-focused chapters from the Ninth Edition of Williams Hematology. The book has been carefully edited to deliver only the most clinical point-of-care facts, making differential diagnosis faster, easier, and more efficient.
Concise but comprehensive, this complete guide includes sections on:
• Initial Clinical Evaluation
• Disorders of Red Cells
• Disorders of Granulocytes
• Disorders of Monocytes and Macrophages
• Principles of Therapy for Neoplastic Hematological Disorders
• The Clonal Myeloid Disorders
• The Polyclonal Lymphoid Diseases
• The Clonal Lymphoid and Plasma Cell Diseases
• Disorders of Platelet and Hemostasis
• Disorders of Coagulation Proteins
• Thrombosis and Antithrombotic Therapy
• Transfusion and Hemapheresis
About the author
Marshall A. Lichtman, MD (Rochester, NY) is Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, MD (Stony Brook, NY) serves as Dean of the School of Medicine and Senior Vice President of the Health Sciences at State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Josef Prchal, MD (Salt Lake City, UT) is a Professor in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah.
Marcel Levi MD, PhD (Amsterdam, Netherlands) has been a Professor of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, since 2001.
Linda J. Burns, MD (Minneapolis, MN) is Vice President and Medical Director of Health Services Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match and former President of the American Society of Hematology.
James O. Armitage, MD (Omaha, NE) is the Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and past president of both the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
