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Volume 353:1535-1536 October 6, 2005 Number 14

Textbook of Hemophilia

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Edited by Christine A. Lee, Erik E. Berntorp, and W. Keith Hoots. 400 pp., illustrated. Malden, Mass., Blackwell, 2005. $199. ISBN 1-405-12769-4.

Hemophilia is an unusual sex-linked inherited hemorrhagic disorder, but it has contributed to the advancement of biomedical knowledge and medical practice at a level that far exceeds its relatively low incidence. Transfusion medicine, cell biology, and translational medicine, to name just a few areas, have all benefited from research into this disease. It has been more than 20 years since the publication of a textbook that focused on hemophilia and, consequently, this book seeks to and successfully fills an obvious void.

Textbook of Hemophilia does more than meet the objective of providing a compendium of facts on the disease; it . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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