| Ch. 1 | The Clinical Laboratory: Organization, Purposes, and Practice | 3 |
| With a section on Pathology and Laboratory Coding and Reimbursement | 39 |
| Ch. 2 | Physician Office Laboratories | 50 |
| Ch. 3 | Principles of Instrumentation | 60 |
| Ch. 4 | Clinical Laboratory Automation | 79 |
| Ch. 5 | Interpreting Laboratory Results | 92 |
| Ch. 6 | Informatics, Imaging, and Interoperability | 108 |
| Ch. 7 | Laboratory Statistics | 138 |
| Ch. 8 | Clinical Laboratory Quality Assurance | 148 |
| Ch. 9 | Evaluation of Renal Function, Water, Electrolytes, Acid-Base Balance, and Blood Gases | 159 |
| Ch. 10 | Metabolic Intermediates, Inorganic Ions and Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism | 180 |
| Ch. 11 | Carbohydrates | 211 |
| Ch. 12 | Lipids and Dyslipoproteinemia | 224 |
| Ch. 13 | Specific Proteins | 249 |
| Ch. 14 | Evaluation of Liver Function and Injury | 264 |
| Ch. 15 | Clinical Enzymology | 281 |
| Ch. 16 | Evaluation of Endocrine Function | 304 |
| Ch. 17 | Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring | 335 |
| Ch. 18 | Basic Examination of Urine | 367 |
| Ch. 19 | Cerebrospinal, Synovial, and Serous Body Fluids | 403 |
| Ch. 20 | Andrology Laboratory and Fertility Assessment | 425 |
| Ch. 21 | Laboratory Management of Assisted Reproductive Technology | 432 |
| Ch. 22 | Laboratory Aspects of Gestation Management | 446 |
| Ch. 23 | Laboratory Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Disorders | 462 |
| Ch. 24 | Basic Examination of Blood | 479 |
| Ch. 25 | Hematopoiesis | 520 |
| Ch. 26 | Erythrocytic Disorders | 542 |
| Ch. 27 | Leukocytic Disorders | 586 |
| Ch. 28 | Blood Platelets | 623 |
| Ch. 29 | Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Hypercoagulation | 642 |
| Ch. 30 | Immunohematology | 660 |
| Ch. 31 | Transfusion Medicine | 718 |
| Ch. 32 | Hemapheresis | 776 |
| Ch. 33 | Tissue Banking and Progenitor Cells | 806 |
| Ch. 34 | Overview of the Immune System and Immunologic Disorders | 817 |
| Ch. 35 | Immunoassays and Immunochemistry | 821 |
| Ch. 36 | Laboratory Evaluation of the Cellular Immune System | 850 |
| Ch. 37 | Laboratory Evaluation of Immunoglobulin Function and Humoral Immunity | 878 |
| Ch. 38 | Complement and Kinins: Mediators of Inflammation | 892 |
| Ch. 39 | Cytokines and Adhesion Molecules | 914 |
| Ch. 40 | Human Leukocyte Antigen: The Major Histocompatibility Complex of Man | 927 |
| Ch. 41 | The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Disease | 949 |
| Ch. 42 | Immunodeficiency Disorders | 963 |
| Ch. 43 | Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation of Systemic Rheumatic Diseases | 974 |
| Ch. 44 | Vasculitis | 990 |
| Ch. 45 | Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases | 1000 |
| Ch. 46 | Allergic Diseases | 1016 |
| Ch. 47 | Diagnosis and Management of Cancer Using Serologic Tumor Markers | 1028 |
| Ch. 48 | Viral Infections | 1045 |
| Ch. 49 | Chlamydial, Rickettsial, and Mycoplasmal Infections | 1072 |
| Ch. 50 | Medical Bacteriology | 1088 |
| Ch. 51 | In Vitro Testing of Antimicrobial Agents | 1119 |
| Ch. 52 | Spirochete Infections | 1131 |
| Ch. 53 | Mycobacteria | 1144 |
| Ch. 54 | Mycotic Diseases | 1158 |
| Ch. 55 | Medical Parasitology | 1196 |
| Ch. 56 | Molecular Pathology of Infectious Diseases | 1241 |
| Ch. 57 | Specimen Collection and Handling for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases | 1254 |
| Ch. 58 | Introduction to Molecular Pathology | 1273 |
| Ch. 59 | Molecular Diagnostics: Basic Principles and Techniques | 1275 |
| Ch. 60 | Polymerase Chain Reaction and Other Amplification Technology | 1287 |
| Ch. 61 | Hybridization Array Technologies | 1296 |
| Ch. 62 | Applications of Cytogenetics in Modern Pathology | 1304 |
| Ch. 63 | Establishing a Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory | 1333 |
| Ch. 64 | Oncoproteins and Early Tumor Detection | 1344 |
| Ch. 65 | Molecular Techniques in the Diagnosis of Hematopoietic Neoplasms | 1355 |
| Ch. 66 | Molecular Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases | 1372 |
| Ch. 67 | Parentage Testing: Use of DNA Polymorphism and Other Genetic Markers | 1390 |
| Ch. 68 | Forensic Identity Testing by DNA Analysis | 1402 |
| App. 1 | Physiologic Solutions, Buffers, Acid-Base Indicators, Standard Reference Materials, and Temperature Conversions | 1417 |
| App. 2 | Desirable Weights, and Body Surface Area, and Body Mass Index (BMI) | 1420 |
| App. 3 | Approximations of Total Blood Volume (TBV) | 1424 |
| App. 4: Periodic Table of the Elements | 1425 |
| App. 5: SI Units | 1426 |
| Index | 1443 |
Format: Textbook Hardcover, 20th ed., 1536 pages
