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Glassy, MD, told CAP TODAY when we asked what the reader can expect.

The second edition (the first was published in 1998) is the fourth CAP Color Atlas Dr.

Glassy has worked on in the past 20 years, and it is the most ambitious yet, he says, and the next logical progression in the continuous effort to provide access to the remarkably rich data in the CAPs proficiency testing archive.

David Blomberg, MD, and Katherine Galagan, MD, are associate editors.

The atlas is called a field guide and you write in the preface that the atlas is unique.

Can you explain both A field guide is an illustrated book designed to help the reader identify objects in the wild, such as plants, birds, and minerals.

Morphologic differences are key and they can be minor, like the distinctive but subtle shape of a bird beak.

Likewise, this atlas focuses on morphologic differences between cells and other objects in the peripheral blood.

And it is meant to be used in the wild, which is the laboratory or at a desk where blood smears are examined.

The field guide analogy can be extended to a survival guide for laboratories because the atlas can be used to help pass proficiency testing.

That was the emphasis of the first edition, in which only CAP proficiency testing photographs were included along with proficiency testing scores for each image.

In the second edition, weve vastly expanded the number of images by using material from the authors own personal collections.

The lymphocyte chapter in the first edition, for example, is 40 pages in length and now in the second edition there are 70 pages.

The lymphoma section alone is 20 pages and includes several Closer Look discussions.

Here is a quote from the preface to the first edition: We call it a field guide because it is an in-the-trenches, real-world look at cell identificationthe important morphologic clues, the key features of differentiation, the look-alikes and the associated disease states.

As laboratorians, we rely on microscopes instead of binoculars to identify our quarry.

The world may not need another hematology atlas, but a field guide is another niche altogether.

There is an introduction to microscopy, a timeline of hematology (with videos), an overview of flow cytometry, pediatric pathology, and automated hematology, including the newest machines used for digital cell morphology.

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