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edited by Bernadette Rodak, 2nd ed, 835 pp, with illus, $74.95, ISBN 0-7216-8404-1, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2002.

JAMA. 2002;288:2750.

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Once a subdiscipline of internal medicine, hematology has expanded into a medical specialty of its own, bordering on and interacting with a variety of medical disciplines such as general internal medicine, oncology, transfusion medicine, and infectiology. Pathological conditions of the hematological system contribute a great deal to the morbidity load in industrialized countries. Thrombotic disorders, such as thromboembolism, myocardial infarction, and cerebral stroke, are major factors in mortality, and in many countries are indeed the leading cause of death.

Blood, the liquid organ in perpetual motion that is the subject matter of the science of hematology, can be the source of disease, carrier of disease, or just a messenger bringing news about the state of other body parts. With the advent of molecular diagnostics, an enormous and ever-increasing amount of medically relevant information can be read from an ever-decreasing sample volume of it.

Hematology: Clinical Principles and Applications is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas Lazar, Dr rer nat, Reviewer
Göttingen, Germany

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