When does the new WHO Heme update come out?

[Patologika]

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Does anyone have an idea when the new edition will be published? I am trying to use my book-money wisely. I'm currently a 2nd year resident and I think having this WHO fascicle is worth it. But I don't know if I should wait a little?

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

 

[pathstudent]

Does anyone have an idea when the new edition will be published? I am trying to use my book-money wisely. I'm currently a 2nd year resident and I think having this WHO fascicle is worth it. But I don't know if I should wait a little?

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Hopefully soon. The 2008 one is so hopelessly outdated at this point.

 

[TMZ2007]

Hopefully soon. The 2008 one is so hopelessly outdated at this point.

Is it really though? Have there been entities in your practice that are unclassifiable because of outdated criteria or otherwise?

To the OP: having ready access to the book is more important than actually owning a copy, unless you are planning a career in hematopathology. At my program during hemepath rotations we had a set of books (inc. WHO heme, Foucar, Kjeldsburg, Ioachim, and the CAP blood cell morphology book, all of which I highly recommend) that got handed off from resident to resident. This was more than adequate for my personal needs.

 

[2121115]

Get Jaffe's book in the Expert Consult series on Hematopathology. Basically the hemepath Bible at this point. Read it cover to cover. The WHO book is less useful, IMO.

 

[Ruination]

Get Jaffe's book in the Expert Consult series on Hematopathology. Basically the hemepath Bible at this point. Read it cover to cover. The WHO book is less useful, IMO.

I agree completely with this statement. I find the WHO ok for a list of entities, their immunophenotypes and genetic features, but Jaffe's book is better for actually working up cases.

 

[Trephine]

Does anyone have an idea when the new edition will be published? I am trying to use my book-money wisely. I'm currently a 2nd year resident and I think having this WHO fascicle is worth it. But I don't know if I should wait a little?

Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Jaffe's book is good, but there are two newer ones from the Diagnostic Pathology series that are very practical and easy to use. One is on lymph nodes and spleen, and the other is on blood and bone marrow. Medeiros heads up the lymph node one and Foucar the marrow. I actually like Medeiros since Ioachim's is old. The Foucar one seems like a concise version of her two volume book since it's by the same people. These are in outline format, kind of a mixture between the differential diagnosis in surg path book and Hsi's hemepath book(boxes with important facts), but with a lot more pics. The sections are color coded and very easy to look up stuff. I think you'd be well equipped with these if you want to wait for the new WHO.

Also, I do not believe the current WHO is "hopelessly outdated", maybe a few small things here and there but it's far from being unusable.

 

[Patologika]

Thank you all!👍