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Third Edition. By Oscar D. Ratnoff and Charles D. Forbes. 563 pp. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $140. ISBN 0-7216-5273-5.

It comes as no surprise that this third edition of Disorders of Hemostasis differs considerably from the second one (1991), because of the rapid progress in the field. O.D. Ratnoff, one of the nestors of hemostasis, sets the stage with a historical account of the evolution of knowledge on the subject. Ratnoff also contributes 3 other lucid chapters; the remaining 17 are written by 20 experts, 13 of them American, 5 Scottish, 1 English, and 1 Japanese — a somewhat uneven distribution of hemostasis researchers.

The chapters on normal hemostatic mechanisms and on platelets and their disorders are superb and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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