With major advances in technology there are thousands of clinical and laboratory tests available, forming a key part of the diagnostic process in the highly complex field of modern medicine. This handbook provides a patient-orientated approach to investigation, with a comprehensive review of specialty-related tests. Written in the Oxford Handbook style, this book features references and up-to-date website links for extra clinical detail.

This new edition has been revised to include the most recent developments in investigatory tests, with clear step-by-step instructions and updated illustrations to provide greater clarifying background to the text. Written by an experienced team of active clinicians, this is invaluable for junior doctors as a quick reference, as well as senior medical students preparing for examinations.

1: The Patient
1: Drew Provan: Symptoms & signs
2: Investigations
2: Colin Dayan: Endocrinology & metabolism
3: Vanessa Fogo and Drew Provan: Haematology
4: Gavin Spickett: Immunology & allergy
5: Prof Brian Angus: Infectious & tropical diseases
6: Andrew R. Houghton: Cardiology
7: Emma Greig: Gastroenterology
8: Joanna Brown: Respiratory medicine
9: Martyn Bracewell: Neurology
10: Charlie Tomson and Sarah McLoskey: Renal medicine
11: Alison Jones: Poisoning & overdose
12: Suzanne Lane: Rheumatology
13: Tanya Chawla: Radiology
14: Jim Ballinger and Gopinath Gnanasegaran: Nuclear medicine

Edited by Drew Provan , Honorary Reader in Autoimmune Haematology, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Dr Provan is currently Honorary Reader in Autoimmune Haematology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He studied molecular genetics at Leicester University before studying medicine. After junior medical posts in the UK, I undertook research at The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 1993-4 on an American Traveling fellowship awarded by the Medical Research Council. As a general haematologist, his main area of interest within the field of haematology is immunohaematology which includes diseases such as autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP), neutropenia and haemolytic anaemia. He has written several medical books including Molecular Haematology (Blackwell Science), Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology and Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, and the ABC of Clinical Haematology (BMJ books).