Illustrated Pathology of the Bone Marrow

Attilio Orazi is Professor of Pathology and Director of the Division of Hematopathology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dennis O'Malley is Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematopathology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Daniel Arber is Professor of Pathology and Director of Clinical Hematology Laboratories at Stanford University Medical Center.

• 1. Introduction; 2. The normal bone marrow and an approach to bone marrow evaluation of neoplastic and proliferative process; 3. Granulomatous and histiocytic disorders; 4. The aplasias; 5. The hyperplasias; 6. Other non-neoplastic marrow changes; 7. Myelodysplastic syndromes; 8. Acute leukemia; 9. Chronic myeloproliferative disorders and systemic mastocytosis; 10. Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disorders; 11. Chronic lymphoproliferative disorders and malignant lymphoma; 12. Immunosecretory disorders/plasma cell disorders and lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma; 13. Metastatic disorders; 14. Post-therapy bone marrow changes.

"The initial chapters offer an excellent introduction to bone marrow specimens, explaining indications for aspiration or trephine biopsy...The chapters concerning haematological malignancies are excellent and I was impressed by the succinct nature of the text...The layout of the book is good with an abundance of useful tables and colour pictures, along with a concise and well referenced text...In summary, I would recommend this book to histopathologists or haemotologists in training as it is succinct and easy to use."Doctors.net.uk