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Nathan and Oski’s Hematology of Infancy and Childhood
Edited by Stuart H. Orkin, David G. Nathan, David Ginsburg, A. Thomas Look, David E. Fisher, and Samuel E. Lux
7th ed, 1841 pp, $325
New York, NY, Saunders/Elsevier, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-3430-8
JAMA. 2009;301(21):2273.
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Nathan and Oski's textbook has been the backbone of most training in pediatric hematology and oncology. The book has increased in scope since the original book was published in 1974. There is now much more information on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment, which has translated into longer life, and often cure, for children with blood diseases and cancer.
This new seventh edition has an unanticipated change—it focuses only on benign hematology, delegating malignancies to a separate companion textbook. This hematology-only textbook comprises 37 chapters within 12 sections written by 74 experts in their individual fields and is encyclopedic in information and references. Some sections (eg, "Hemostasis") are comprehensive and contain up to 10 chapters, while other sections (ie, "History," "Phagocytes," "Storage Disease," "Supportive Therapy") comprise only a single chapter.
The chapter on the history of pediatric hematology is indeed historical in that it is the same chapter written years ago by . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Paulette Mehta, MD, MPH, Reviewer
Hematology/Oncology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
Little Rock
mehtapaulette@uams.edu
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