Book excerpt: A concise and thorough guide to clinical hematology and the fundamentals of hemostasis. The text's five parts provide a substantial introduction to the subject, followed by sections on the anemias, white blood cell disorders, hemostasis/thrombosis, and laboratory methods. This edition includes new chapters addressing the use of flow cytometry, the molecular diagnostic techniques in hematopathology, and an introduction to thrombosis and anticoagulant therapy. A feature of previous editions, a 260-page color-plate atlas, has been incorporated throughout the text. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR