Flow Cytometry of Hematological Malignancies

FlowCytometryofHematologicalMalignanciescontainsanarrayofgraphicaloutputsproducedbythetechniqueinthestudyofthemost(andtheleast)commondiseases.Theimagesincludedallowyoutocompareyourownresultswithathirdpartyreferencepattern.Thereisadetaileddescriptionofthemainleukocyteantigens,togetherwithadescriptionoftheirdistributionamongstnormalandabnormalbloodcells.ThebookalsoprovidesacomprehensivedescriptionofthephenotypeofeveryneoplasticblooddiseaserecordedintheWHOclassificationsystem,includingalltheinstructionsneededtorecogniseandclassifyeventheleastcommonentity.Designedtobepractical,thebookisperfectforquickconsultationandisdividedintotwomainsections.SectionIdealswiththedirectobjectofimmunophenotyping,andSectionIIdealswiththeultimatetargetoftheanalysis.Morethan50antigensarecoveredandeveryantigenisdealtwithinthreemainparts:generalfeatures,cytometricfeaturesandpracticalhints.Thisauthoritativeandstate-of-the-artreferencewillbeinvaluableforcliniciansdirectlyinvolvedinthediagnosisandanalysisofhematologicaldiseases,includinghematologists,hematopathologists,oncologists,pathologistsandtechniciansworkingindiagnosticlaboratories.