Hematopathology Resident / Fellow Manual - Department of ...

B. Nathan, DG and Orkin, SH, Nathan and Oski’s Hematology of Infancy and Childhood, 7 th
Edition, WB Saunders, 2009.
C. Penchansky L, Pediatric Bone Marrow, Springer, 2004.
D. Glassy EF. Color Atlas of Hematology, CAP 1998
E. Peripheral smear and fluid slide study sets are available for checkout from Office Secretary –
G306.
F. Chromogram information for hemoglobinopathy information (in supplemental materials)
G. Bain BJ. Haemoglobinopathy Diagnosis, 2 nd ed. Blackwell, 2006.
H. Schuman GB, Friedman SK. Wet Urinalysis, ASCP, 2003.
I. Galagan, K. Color Atlas of Body Fluids: An Illustrated Field Guide Based on Proficiency
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J. Proytcheva, M.A. (Ed), Diagnostic Pediatric Hematopathology, 2011.
7. Review results of ancillary procedures performed on marrows you have reviewed and read
addenda faculty have issued.
Policy for sign-out of CHP marrows that have biopsies
1. Hematopathology signs out biopsies on hematologic disease cases including non-Hodgkin
lymphomas. CHP surgical pathology signs out the biopsies on tumor cases.
2. On all cases with a biopsy, the histologic section must be reviewed by the hematopathologist
even if it is not a case where the hematopathologist is signing out the biopsy. This is to ensure
that it does not conflict with the aspirate smear evaluation.
3. In all cases with a biopsy, where CHP is signing out the biopsy the hematopathologist should
correlate with the CHP pathology report to make sure that the two diagnoses will not conflict. In
some cases, this may involve contacting the CHP pathologist and jointly reviewing the case.
Policy for Assignment of Marrow Cases without Biopsies
Marrow sign-out is the responsibility of the faculty/trainee on the service when the marrow biopsy
typically would come out. However, all cases done on Friday must be pre-reviewed by those on
the service that day. In addition, all marrows, pediatric or adult, with or without flow cytometry that
do not have a biopsy and are received before noon on a Friday, must be signed out by those on
the service that week. They are not the responsibility of those on the following week. Children’s
bone marrow aspirates with biopsies for metastatic tumor evaluation received on Friday will be the
responsibility of the pathologist on service the following week, even though we are only signing out
the aspirate.