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Volume 338:1164 April 16, 1998 Number 16
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Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood

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Fifth edition. Edited by David G. Nathan and Stuart H. Orkin. 1914 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1998. $295. ISBN 0-7216-5951-9.

The fifth edition of Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood lives up to its reputation as the bible of pediatric hematology. There simply is no other book that approaches either the breadth or the depth of content for the specialist in pediatric hematology.

Pediatric hematology has been for years a focus of human genetics and molecular medicine, in part because of the accessibility of samples of blood and bone marrow for study. The discovery of the amino acid substitution that causes sickle hemoglobin established the first scientific basis for understanding the molecular nature of a genetic disease. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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