Postgraduate Haematology
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《新英格兰医药杂志》
Comprehensive textbooks for a medical specialty are difficult to write or update in these times because of the rapid pace of discoveries and of the evolution of concepts and because of the large number of review articles in international journals that generally appear very quickly on the Web. It obviously takes time to edit a comprehensive book dealing with an entire specialty, with chapters by many authors. All the material for such a book must be edited, illustrated, indexed, and printed, at the risk of being out of date by the time the book appears on store shelves. In addition, hematology, like other specialties, is increasingly being divided into subspecialties, which makes maintaining a proper balance among the subspecialties difficult.
Hoffbrand, Catovsky, and Tuddenham have managed to bring together a new edition (the fifth) of Postgraduate Haematology in every chapter of which the reader finds very good, updated discussions of the physiology, pathophysiological concepts, causes, and treatment of all benign and malignant disorders of the blood and the lymphatic system. The editors have asked outstanding experts in every field to write new chapters or update previously included chapters. Information ranging from the most basic (including the principles of the direct antiglobulin test, blood grouping, and normal blood-count values) to the most specialized (very rare chromosomal translocations in atypical myeloid disorders that may respond to imatinib) is presented in clear tables and figures, along with lucid and updated algorithms for decision making with regard to treatment. The images of blood cells and tissues are of excellent quality and will be useful to hematologists working principally in the laboratory.
By covering all areas of hematology, this book also reminds hematologists that in their daily clinical and laboratory practice, most of them are faced with many different disorders and techniques, ranging from iron-deficiency anemia to acute leukemia and from transfusions to clotting disorders, respectively. Most hematologists need a revised and practical textbook in which they can rapidly search on the morning of a consultation for a rare cause of hemolytic anemia, advice on how to interpret difficult patterns of hemoglobin electrophoresis, an atypical immunophenotype of B-cell proliferation, or a rare side effect of chemotherapy. This book will be an important resource in such situations.
Graduating students, professors preparing papers for conferences, and patients desiring detailed information on their hematologic disorders will find here most of what they want on hematology — which, as this textbook reminds us, remains a single specialty.
Pierre Fenaux, M.D., Ph.D.
H?pital Avicenne and Paris 13 University
93009 Bobigny, France
pierre.fenaux@avc.aphp.fr(Fifth edition. Edited by )
Hoffbrand, Catovsky, and Tuddenham have managed to bring together a new edition (the fifth) of Postgraduate Haematology in every chapter of which the reader finds very good, updated discussions of the physiology, pathophysiological concepts, causes, and treatment of all benign and malignant disorders of the blood and the lymphatic system. The editors have asked outstanding experts in every field to write new chapters or update previously included chapters. Information ranging from the most basic (including the principles of the direct antiglobulin test, blood grouping, and normal blood-count values) to the most specialized (very rare chromosomal translocations in atypical myeloid disorders that may respond to imatinib) is presented in clear tables and figures, along with lucid and updated algorithms for decision making with regard to treatment. The images of blood cells and tissues are of excellent quality and will be useful to hematologists working principally in the laboratory.
By covering all areas of hematology, this book also reminds hematologists that in their daily clinical and laboratory practice, most of them are faced with many different disorders and techniques, ranging from iron-deficiency anemia to acute leukemia and from transfusions to clotting disorders, respectively. Most hematologists need a revised and practical textbook in which they can rapidly search on the morning of a consultation for a rare cause of hemolytic anemia, advice on how to interpret difficult patterns of hemoglobin electrophoresis, an atypical immunophenotype of B-cell proliferation, or a rare side effect of chemotherapy. This book will be an important resource in such situations.
Graduating students, professors preparing papers for conferences, and patients desiring detailed information on their hematologic disorders will find here most of what they want on hematology — which, as this textbook reminds us, remains a single specialty.
Pierre Fenaux, M.D., Ph.D.
H?pital Avicenne and Paris 13 University
93009 Bobigny, France
pierre.fenaux@avc.aphp.fr(Fifth edition. Edited by )