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Atlas of Hematopathology with 100 Case Studies is a practical guide useful for pathologists and hematologists, residents and fellows, laboratory directors, researchers, and students in the field of hematology, cytogenetic, and molecular pathology. The book offers important information to practicing physicians and those in pathology and hematology training to improve their diagnostic skills. It covers the most important aspects of hematopathology, including classifications, clinical symptoms, hematopathologic features, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, and the use and importance of ancillary testing, such as immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, and cytogenetics.
List of contents
1. Bone marrow evaluation
2. White blood cells
3. Red blood cells
4. Dendritic cell and histiocytic disorders
5. Myelodysplastic and related neoplasms
6. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and related disorders
7. Acute Myeloid Leukemias (AML) and related disorders
8. B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma (B-ALL)
9. Mature B-Cell Neoplasms
10. T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma (T-ALL)
11. T and NK Cell Neoplasms
12. Hodgkin Lymphoma
13. Plasma Cell Neoplasms
14. Reactive Lymphadenopathies
About the author
Dr. Faramarz Naeim is Professor Emeritus of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. He graduated from Tehran University School of Medicine and received his training in Pathology at Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston City Hospital and Department of Pathology at UCLA School of Medicine. He has provided clinical services as a hematopathologist for 43 years, 30 years at UCLA, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and 13 years at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Naeim has published several books and book chapters in hematopathology and numerous articles in peer review journals.Dr. Rao is an established Elsevier author. Current projects include analysis of cytogenetic abnormalities in Paget's disease patients and analyzing the mouse karyotypes for identifying XXY males among the offspring of female chimeras from embryonic stem-cells. His cytogenetics laboratory is a training site for interested residents, fellows and medical students.Dr. Sophie Song is a practicing board-certified hematopathologist. Dr. Song has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, post-doctoral training in Cellular Immunology, and in-depth technical knowledge in flow cytometry that was developed while working as a research scientist at Biotech industry. Following her research experiences, Dr. Song completed her Pathology residency and Hematopathology fellowship at UCLA, and became faculty member at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA in 2003. Since 2005, she has served as the Director of Clinical Flow Cytometry and Bone Marrow Laboratories at UCLA.
