Product Description

This manual is a concise, practical, up-to-date book for practitioners responsible for the care of children with hematologic and oncologic disease. It is specifically designed for medical students, pediatric house staff, fellows in pediatric hematology-oncology seeking a systematic approach to these diseases and a guide in preparation for board examinations, and practicing hematologists and oncologists seeking another opinion and an approach to the diagnosis and management of these disorders. The book is replete with detailed tables, flow diagrams and algorithms for investigation and clinical management of these diseases. The basic orientation and intent of the book is clinical and the book reflects a uniform systematic approach to diagnosis and management of hematologic and oncologic diseases in children.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1628712 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 800 pages

About the Author
Dr. Philip Lanzkowsky is Chief-of-Staff of the Schneider Children's Hospital. He is Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program and Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1994, he was appointed Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and Medical Director of Long Island Jewish Medical Center. In 1999, he was appointed Vice President for the Children's Health Network of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. The author of four texts in pediatric hematology-oncology, Dr. Lanzkowsky has in excess of 270 scientific publications to his name. He is the U.S. editor of the international journal Pediatric Reviews and Communications, and is Editor-in-Chief of The Children's Hospital Quarterly and is a member of the editorial board of Social Work in Health Care.