A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells
A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells
Editor/Author
Bain, Barbara J.
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$55.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$82.50
ISBN: 978-1-119-36773-4
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
Image Count:
185
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER 1: The Blood Film and Count
- Blood
- The blood film
- The blood count
- Normal ranges
- How to examine a blood film
- CHAPTER 2: Assessing Red Cells
- Assessing red cell number and distribution (anaemia, polycythaemia, rouleaux formation, red cell agglutination)
- Assessing red cell size (microcytosis, macrocytosis, anisocytosis)
- Assessing red cell shape (poikilocytosis)
- Assessing red cell colour (hypochromia, hyperchromia, anisochromasia, polychromasia)
- Detecting red cell inclusions (Pappenheimer bodies, basophilic stippling, Howell–Jolly bodies)
- The full blood count in red cell assessment
- CHAPTER 3: Assessing White Cells and Platelets
- Assessing white cell and platelet numbers
- Assessing neutrophil morphology
- Assessing lymphocyte morphology
- Assessing morphology of monocytes, eosinophils and basophils
- Assessing platelet morphology
- CHAPTER 4: Haematological Findings in Health and Disease
- The blood film and count in healthy individuals
- Abnormalities of red cells
- Abnormalities of white cells
- CHAPTER 5: Emergency Morphology: The Relevance of the Full 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
- Neonatal emergencies