Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction to hematology -- An overview of clinical laboratory hematology -- Quality assurance in hematology and hemostasis testing -- Part II: Blood cell production, structure, and function -- Cellular structure and function -- Hematopoiesis -- Erythrocyte production and destruction -- Erythrocyte metabolism and membrane structure and function -- Hemoglobin metabolism -- Iron kinetics and laboratory assessment -- Leukocyte development, kinetics, and functions -- Platelet production, structure, and function -- Part III: Laboratory evaluation of blood cells -- Manual, semiautomated, and point-of-care testing and hematology -- Automated blood cell analysis -- Examination of the peripheral blood film and correlation with the complete blood count -- Bone marrow examination -- Body fluid analysis in the hematology laboratory -- Part IV: Erythrocyte disorders -- Anemias: red blood cell morphology and approach to diagnosis -- Disorders of iron kinetics and heme metabolism -- Anemias caused by defects of DNA metabolism -- Bone marrow failure -- Introduction to increased destruction of erythrocytes -- Intrinsic defects leading to increased erythrocyte destruction -- Extrinsic defects leading to increased erythrocyte destruction-nonimmune causes -- Extrinsic defects leading to increased erythrocyte destruction-immune causes -- Hemoglobinopathies (Structural defects in hemoglobin) -- Thalassemias -- Part V: Leukocyte disorders -- Non-malignant leukocyte disorders -- Intro to hematologic malignancies -- Flow cytometric analysis in hematologic disorders -- Molecular diagnostics in the clinical laboratory -- Cytogenetics -- Acute leukemias -- Myeloproliferative neoplasms -- Myelodysplastic syndromes -- Mature lymphoid neoplasms -- Part VI: Hemostasis and thrombosis -- Normal hemostasis and coagulation -- Hemorrhagic disorders and laboratory assessment -- Qualitative disorders of platelets and vasculature -- Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis -- Thrombotic disorders and laboratory assessment -- Antithrombotic therapies and their laboratory assessment -- Laboratory evaluation of hemostasis -- Hemostasis and coagulation instrumentation -- Part VII: Hematology and hemostasis in selected populations -- Hematology and hemostasis in the pediatric, geriatric, and pregnant populations.