Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stem cells and haemopoiesis / Myrtle Gordon -- Erythropoiesis / Douglas Higgs and William Wood -- Iron metabolism, iron deficiency, and disorders of haem synthesis / Mark Worwood and A. Victor Hoffbrand -- Iron overload / A. Victor Hoffbrand and Mark Worwood -- Megaloblastic anaemia / A. Victor Hoffbrand and Ralph Green -- Haemoglobin and the inherited disorders of globin synthesis / David Weatherall -- Sickle cell anaemia / Elliott Vichinsky -- Hereditary disorders of the red cell membrane / Edward Gordon-Smith -- Red cell metabollic disorders / Edward Gordon-Smith -- Acquired haemolytic anaemias / Edward Gordon-Smith and Judith C.W. Marsh -- Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria / Lucio Luzzatto and Rosario Notaro -- Inherited aplastic anaemia/bone marrow failure syndromes / Inderjeet Dokal -- Acquired aplastic anaemia, other aquired bone marrow failure disorders, and dyserythropoiesis / Edward Gordon-Smith and Judith Marsh -- Red cell immunohaematology: introduction / Marcela Contreras and Geoff Daniels --

Antigens in human blood / Marcela Contreras and Geoff Daniels -- Clinical blood transfusion / Marcela Contreras ... [et al.] -- Phagocytic white blood cells / Farhad Ravandi and Ronald Hoffman -- Haemopoietic growth factors / Jenny Byrne and Nigel Russell -- Lysosomal storage disorders / Atul Mehta and Derralynn Hughes -- Normal lymphocytes and non-neoplastic lymphocyte disorders / Mark Drayson and Paul Moss -- The spleen / S. Mitchell Lewis -- Immunodeficiency diseases / David Webster -- Haematology in HIV disease / Christine Costello -- Histocompatibility / Ann-Margaret Little and Steven Marsh, J. Alexandro Madrigal -- Stem cell transplantation / Charles Craddock and Ronjon Chakraverty -- Non-myeloablative transplantation / Kirsty Thomson, Michael Potter, and S. Mackinnon -- Gene therapy for haemopoietic disorders / Raphaël Rousseau and Malcolm Brenner --

Molecular basis of leukaemia and lymphoma / Anthony Green ... [et al.] -- Diagnosis and classification of acute leukaemia / Barbara Bain -- Cytogenetics of acute leukaemia / Christine Harrison -- Acute myeloid leukaemia / Alan Burnett -- Adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia / Dieter Hoelzer and Nicola Gökbuget -- Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia / Der-Cherng Liang and Ching-Hon Pui -- Minimal residual disease in acute leukaemia / Letizia Foroni, Paula Gameiro, and A. Victor Hoffbrand -- Multi-drug resistance in leukaemia / Jean-Pierre Marie and Ollivier Legrand -- Support care in the management of acute leukaemia / Archibald Prentice and Peter J. Donnelly -- Chronic myeloid leukaemia / John M. Goldman and Tariq I. Mughal -- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and related B-cell disorders / Daniel Catovsky -- T-cell lymphoproliferative disorders / Estella Matutes --

Myelodysplastic syndrome / David Oscier and Sally Killick -- Myeloma / H.J.B. Goodman and P.N. Hawkins -- Amyloidosis / Philip Hawkins and Hugh Goodman -- Classification of lymphomas / Peter Isaacson -- Management of Hodgkin's disease / Lynny Yung and David Linch -- Management of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma / I. Avivi and A.H. Goldstone -- Myeloproliferative disorders / Anthony Green and G. Vassiliou -- Normal haemostasis / Geoffrey Kemball-Cook, Edward Tuddenham, and John McVey -- Platelets--structure, function, and physiology / Stephen Watson and Paul Harrison -- Congenital bleeding: X linked disorders and von Willebrand disease / Michael Laffan and Christine Lee -- Congenital bleeding: autosomal recessive deficiencies / Flora Peyvandi and Pier Mannucci -- Acquired coagulation disorders / Michael Nash ... [et al.] -- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (congenital and acquired) / Pier Mannucci --

Inherited thrombophilia / Isobel Walker -- Acquired venous thrombosis / Beverly Hunt and Michael Greaves -- Management of venous thromboembolism / Sam Schulman -- Congenital platelet disorders / Maurizio Margaglione -- Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) / April Chiu ... [et al.] -- Athero-thrombosis, thrombolysis & antiplatelet agents / Lucinda Summers, S. Marso, and Peter Grant -- Haematological aspects of systemic disease / Atul Mehta and A. Victor Hoffbrand -- Haematological aspects of tropical diseases / Imelda Bates and Ivy Ekem -- Neonatal haematology / Irene Roberts -- Laboratory practice / S. Mitchell Lewis.