This book is a companion volume to Standard Haematology Practice edited by B. E. Roberts, and consists of a second set of officially approved techniques, protocols and guidelines for the practice of laboratory and clinical hematology. Each chapter covers a particular set of guidelines grouped into topics that are the accepted recommendations of the British Committee for Standards in Hematology and its Task Forces. Together with the first volume, it provides a complete set of procedures and recommendations for good practice in hematology and will be an essential purchase for all hematologists and their laboratories.