Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods

Description

To interpret the laboratory results.

To distinguish the normal from the abnormal and to understand the merits and demerits of the assays under study.

The book attempts to train a laboratory medicine student to achieve sound knowledge of analytical methods and quality control practices, to interpret the laboratory results, to distinguish the normal from the abnormal and to understand the merits and demerits of the assays under study. As new technologies explode in the diagnostic horizon, the complexity and enormity of the test results will need novel approaches to laboratory practice and will aid in the advent of precision medicine. This book aims at all that and more as the field of laboratory medicine grows and aids in the diagnostics of human ailments.

Table of Contents

1. PART 1 The Clinical Laboratory
2. PART 2 Clinical Chemistry
3. PART 3 Urine and Other Bodily Fluids
4. PART 4 Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
5. PART 5 Hemostasis and Thrombosis
6. PART 6 Immunology and Immunopathology
7. PART 7 Medical Microbiology
8. PART 8 Molecular Pathology
9. PART 9 Molecular Pathology

Author Biography

Richard McPherson

Affiliations and Expertise
Professor of Pathology, Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia