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Useful Textbooks and Papers

Below is a list of valuable textbooks and primary papers from the literature. Copies of the textbooks are available in the CP resident library or from faculty members upon request. Residents should read the primary papers over the course of the rotation as these papers represent critical information that should be familiar to all pathologists.

  • Textbooks
  • Papers

General Clinical Chemistry

Tietz's Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics

by Carl A. Burtis, Edward R. Ashwood and David E. Brun

Ewing's Intrumental Analysis Handbook

by Jack Cazes

Basic Method Validation

by James O. Westgard

Coagulation

Hemostasis and Thrombosis: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice

by Robert W Colman, Victor J Marder, Alexander W Clowes, and James N George

Endocrinology

William's Textbook of Endocrinology

by Henry M. Kronenberg, Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, and P. Reed Larsen

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Applied Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Principles of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

by Michael E Burton, Leslie M Shaw, Jerome J Schentag and William E Evans, 2005

Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Principles to Practice

by Scott A. Waldman and Andre Terz

Toxicology

Casarett And Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons

by Curtis Klaassen

Clinical Toxicology Laboratory: Contemporary Practice of Poisoning Evaluation

by Leslie M. Shaw

Medical Toxicology

by Richard C Dart

Clinical Chemistry

SPEPs and the serum free light chain assay

Using the lab for assessment of nutritional status

Prenatal and Perinatal Screening

Endocrinology

  • Diabetes
  • Thyroid Disease

Cardiac biomarkers

Tumor biomarkers

Point of care testing

Automation in the clinical laboratory

Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Laboratory toxicology in the emergency setting

Heavy metals and trace metals

Drugs of abuse testing

Therapeutic drug monitoring

Immunosuppressive drugs

Anticonvulsant drugs

Lithium

Coagulation

Genetic assesment of the hypercoagulable state