Hematology. For medical students and general practitioners

In recent years, with the increasing availability of techniques able to describe in depth the molecular processes leading to the onset of hematological diseases, many of the traditional views on the pathogenesis of malignant and non-malignant diseases, their diagnosis, treatment and follow-up, have been evolving, and have highlighted the necessity for a constant update.However, the wide amount of available information requires a selection process, in order to provide the updated necessary information to approach the physiology of blood production and blood diseases, in a textbook manageable for students of the medical and biologic areas, including nurses, biotechnology students and Hematology fellows. For this reason, we propose this hematology manual, aiming at providing essential information on the different areas of hematology in a concise textbook, combined with most recent updates on pathobiology and treatment. A large iconography has been included to depict the morphologic change