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Leukaemia Diagnosis (2nd ed).
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By B J Bain. (£49.50.) Blackwell Science, 1998. ISBN: 0 632 051 655.
The first edition of this book was published in 1990 with the subtitle A guide to the FAB classification. (The FAB group had by then published proposals for the classification of the acute leukaemias, the myelodysplastic syndromes and the chronic lymphoid leukaemias.) “This book is much more than an atlas,” quoted from a review of that edition, advertises this new volume from its back cover. How true. …