written by fellows and reviewed by faculty at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, covers novel therapies and current techniques in this rapidly evolving field. Each vignette presents a real patient case and a clinical photo-graph; then challenges readers to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan. The next page reveals the correct diagnosis...discusses the disorder, clinical course, and outcome of the patient...and concludes with 3-4 clinical pearls distilled from the case. The interactive format makes reading fun?and the patient cases offer "pearls of practice" not found in standard texts!Examines essential facts about hematologic and oncologic disorders as well as clinical information relevant to the specific patient discussed in the case. Features a consistent patient-case approach in the proven format of the popular Pearls Series®. Helps readers to interpret imaging studies and clinical photographs with an illustration in most cases.

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