Essentials of Clinical Pathology, Second Edition is a concise textbook that provides basic information about laboratory techniques in clinical chemistry, haematology and blood transfusion for diagnosis and management of diseases . In this thoroughly updated edition, newer chapters have been added, existing chapters have been modified and recent concepts have been incorporated. Apart from numerous illustrations, tables and boxes, this edition also contains appendices on reference ranges, critical values and a list of laboratory tests/results with associated diseases.