Interactive Haematology Imagebank

Barbara J. Bain, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPath, Reader in Diagnostic Haematology, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and Consultant Haematologist, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK

LEARN MODE. To use the product in the 'Learn' section you first have to decide if you are:. A Student. A Medical Laboratory Assistant or,. A Haematologist. . Then you will be given the option to start at the beginning or choose from the groups below. . LEARN THE BASICS. Normal blood and bone marrow cells. Abnormalities in red cells and platelets. Abnormalities in white cells. How to examine a blood film. . MASTER CLASSES. Bone marrow aspirate and trephine biopsy. Assessment of a bone marrow aspirate. Assessment of a trephine biopsy. Red cell abnormalities. Hypochromia and microcytosis. Macrocytosis and megaloblastosis. Haemoglobinopathies and thalassaemias. Congenital and acquired haemolytic anaemias. Sideroblastic and dyserythropoietic anaemias. Aplastic and hypoplastic anaemias. Polycythaemia. Platelet, megakaryocyte and coagulation abnormalities. Congenital abnormalities of megakaryocytes and platelets. Acquired abnormalities of megakaryocytes and platelets. Abnormalities of blood coagulation. White cell abnormalities. Reactive changes in white cells. Acute myeloid leukaemia - the FAB classification. Acute lymphoblastic and biphenotypic leukaemias- the FAB classification. Acute leukaemias - the MIC-M classification. Myelodysplastic syndromes. Chronic myeloid leukaemias. Myeloproliferative disorders. Chronic lymphoid leukaemias. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Hodgkin's disease. Multiple myeloma and related disorders. Side effects of treatment of haematological neoplasms. Disorders of platelet numbers. Thrombocytopenia. Thrombocytosis. Bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections. Bacterial infections. Viral infections (including HIV infection and AIDS). Fungal infections. Parasitic infections. Non-haemopoietic neoplasms. Macrophages and their disorders. Pathology of bone and bone marrow stroma. Inherited abnormalities affecting the blood and bone marrow. Laboratory haematology. Blood transfusion and serology. Automated instruments. Basic laboratory tests. . All these images are in a logical order and to get the most out of the programme it is best to start at the beginning and work your way through. Haematologists get to see all of the pages, where as ML asstistants and students only see a subsection. Students see the least and see very few from the master class sections (and so see a different menu). Images are presented on the left with short and expanded captions on the right. Where there is 'more detailed' or less relevant information to be had there is a button to reveal the information. The images can be enlarged to full screen by clicking on them. Once in a section you can click through in order or go back to the menu at any time. . This is the linear route through the CD. If you want to browse then you can look up an index:. . BROWSE MODE. . Another way of getting at all of the content above. . This is like an index - there are over 600 terms containing over 2000 links in a three level index. . SEARCH. . An alphabetical search index. View list of terms for each letter. Each term in the search index may have several links which are identified in context. . There are over 2000 links in the Search section. . TEST MODE. . Again in this mode, you need to decide if you are a Haematologist, Student or ML assistant and whether you want basic or advanced questions. . You will then get themed question sets, there are several types, all refer to images, eg. . 1 You are presented with an image and then asked to decide which statement(s) are true. . 2. You are asked to click on part of an image to identify something. . 3. You are presented with several images and you have to click on the one that is 'correct'. . 4 You are presented with several related images and asked to say which statements are true. . In each case you may click the image to see it enlarged,. or click the review button to go to the page where it appears with its caption to get more information before answering. . GLOSSARY. . This is in 3 parts. . 1 Alphabetical 2000 entries, click on a letter (a - z) to see entries for that letter, browse the list and click for definition. . 2 CD-Antigens. . 3 Oncogenes. . VIDEO. . 5 clips showing techniques eg Testing Anaesthesia and Aspirating Marrow.