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Hemathology
Profa. Primavera Borelli
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences/USP
FARHI, D.C. Pathology of bone marrow and blood cells. 2.ed. Baltimore: Wolters Kluwer, 2009. 422 p.
This work, published in its second edition in 2009, presents a concise text covering the current aspects of pathogenesis of hematological disorders. The illustrations, all photomicrographs, are excellent quality and representative of Hematologic frames discussed in the text. The book is divided into four parts, dealing with the main pathologies affecting the hematopoietic system in 28 chapters (304 pages). In the first section, the authors provide a brief review of hematopoiesis, addressing the structure of bone marrow, growth factors and cytokines that regulate the system as well as the extramedullary hematopoiesis sites after birth (liver and spleen). Also in this introductory part, the authors discuss techniques for collecting bone marrow as well as the descriptive aspects of the analysis. The next part briefly covers the constitutional system of hematopoietic pathologies ranging from thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies including rarer syndromes such as Fanconi anemia and dyskeratosis congenita. The reactionary non-malignant pathologies such as nutritional anemia, inflammatory, allergic and infectious diseases are covered in 16 chapters in part three. Finally, in part four, the clonal nature of diseases is discussed, namely hematopoietic neoplasias. In 12 chapters, the risk factors for the development of onco-hematology, leukemia, acute or chronic, lymphoma (Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's), neoplasms of plasma cells, T cells, B cells and natural killer cells, histiocytics neoplasms and myelodysplastic syndromes are addressed. As an appendix, the text presents the latest classification of the World Health Organization (2008) for hematopoietic tumors and lymphoid tissues. As outlined, the text is concise and precise in the information provided, constituting an important volume for use at undergraduate level and by those requiring a rapid update.
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