Illustrated with over 800 colour images, this practical guide covers the unique morphology and disease spectrum in pediatric patients, ranging from normal physiologic changes to pathologic states. In addition, it covers newly described pediatric diseases, such as GATA-2 haploinsufficiency and reflects the latest WHO classification for hematolymphoid neoplasms. With the visual format of an atlas, the book provides a quick reference for trainees and physicians in hematopathology, as well as for hematologists and oncologists treating pediatric patients. An online version of the book with expandable figures can be accessed on Cambridge Core, via the code printed on the inside of the cover.

Silvia Tse Bunting is the Director of Hematopathology, Flow Cytometry Laboratory, and Hematology and a Hematopathologist at the Cleveland Clinical, Weston, Florida.

Xiayuan Liang is Medical Director of Hematopathology, Flow Cytometry, and Cytopathology at Children's Hospital Colorado.

Michelle E. Paessler is Division Chief of Hematopathology and Immunology, Medical Director of Clinical Immunology Laboratory, and an attending hematopathologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Satheesh Chonat is the Director of RBC Disorders and Rare Anemias Program, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.


Part I. Peripheral Blood: 1. Introduction to peripheral blood smears examination; Neonatal peripheral blood morphology, and reactive conditions Paessler M, Chonat S and Bunting S; 2. Red blood cell disorder Chonat S and Paessler M; 3. Neutrophil and platelet disorders Chonat S, Bunting S, Schafernak K and Paessler M; 4. Infectious disorders and nutritional deficiencies Chonat S and Bunting S; Part II: Normal and Non-Neoplastic Hematolymphoid Diseases: 5. Benign and reactive non-infective lymphadenopathy Dehua Wang and Shunyou Gong; 6. Normal bone marrow components in pediatric patients Karen Chisholm and Gerald Wertheim; 7. Infectious diseases Shunyou Gong, Dehua Wang and Kristian Schafernak; Part III: Mature Lymphoid Neoplasm: 8. Mature B-cell Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Xiayuan Liang; 9. Mature T-cell Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Xiayuan Liang; 10: Hodgkin lymphoma Xiayuan Liang; 11. Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder Xiayuan Liang; 12. Immunodeficiency-associated lymphoproliferative disorders Michele Paessler; Part IV. Precursor Hematopoietic Neoplasms and Related Neoplasm: 13. Precursor lymphoblastic leukemia Xiayuan Liang, Virginia Knez and Billie Carsten; 14. Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm Stephanie Schniederjan, Aurelia Meloni-Ehrig and Kristian T. Schafernak; 15. Acute myeloid leukemia Xiayuan Liang and Silvia Bunting; 16. Myeloproliferative neoplasm Tracy George and Karen Chisholm; 17. Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disorder Kristian Schafernak, Rachel A. Mariani, Nicoleta C Arva, Jeffrey R Jacobsen and Katherine Calvo; 18. Myelodysplastic syndrome Alina Dulau-Florea, Nisha Patel, Kristian T. Schafernak and Katherine R. Calvo; 19. Myeloid neoplasms with germ line predisposition Katherine R. Calvo, Nisha Patel, Alina Dulau-Florea and Kristian T. Schafernak; 20. Lymphoid neoplasm with germ line predisposition Katherine R. Calvo, Nisha Patel, Alina Dulau-Florea and Kristian T. Schafernak; 21. Mastocytosis and myeloid lymphoid neoplasm with eosinophilia Karen Chisholm and Tracy George; Part V. Histiocytic Neoplasm and Miscellaneous Bone marrow Diseases: 22. Histiocytic neoplasms KC Chikwavaand; 23. Miscellaneous bone marrow manifestation of systemic diseases Kristian Schafernak, Rachel A. Mariani, Nicoleta C Arva, Jeffrey R Jacobsen and Katherine R. Calvo.