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It contains flowcharts, color diagrams, microphotographs in each section, which makes the text easy to understand and thus can be easily reproducible during exams. Strict guidelines, with respect to the course of professional university examinations are followed while writing the content of the book. Technical aspects in relation to laboratory medicine have been dealt accurately.
This edition, comprising 86 chapters, features completely revised and modified text in accordance to the recent guidelines and protocols.
Highlights of important topics covered in each section
- Hematology portion of laboratory medicine given in detail, including practical and technical aspects of hematology laboratory, stains, bone marrow examination and coagulation profile.
- Histological techniques portion of laboratory medicine covered in detail, including routine stains, special stains, tissue processing, and fixatives.
- Histopathology and cytopathology portion discussed in detail, including automation, specimen management, and electron microscopy.
- Laboratory management portion included in detail, including quality control, Job analysis, record keeping and inventories.
- Clinical pathology portion of laboratory medicine discussed in detail, including fluids, urine examination and semen analysis.
- Transfusion medicine and immune-hematology section of laboratory medicine, including blood grouping, cross-matching, and plasmapheresis.
- Management of Covid-19 samples in laboratory is the newly added section in the second edition of the textbook.
