Many comprehensive text books have been written about the common hematologic malignancies. However, every practicing hematologist/oncologist or primary care physician intermittently encounters patients with uncommon or rare hematologic malignancies. Information concerning these diseases, and particularly regarding their management, is extremely difficult to find. Physicians will commonly spend a substantial period of time searching the medical literature for help or will call a colleague who may have greater expertise in the area.
Rare Hematological Malignancies covers malignant hematologic diseases that physicians would see only occasionally, providing accurate, up-to-date information on the disease biology and practical recommendations concerning the disease management.

Polycythemia Vera and Other Polycythemia Syndromes.- Primary Myelofi brosis.- Essential Thrombocythemia.- Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia/ Hypereosinophilic Syndrome.- Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia.- The 5q- Syndrome.- Rare Acute Leukemias.- Hairy Cell Leukemia.- Waldenstrom's Macrogloblinemia/ Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma.- Rare B-cell Lymphomas: Primary Mediastinal, Intravascular, and Primary Effusion Lymphoma.- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis.- Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders.- Castleman Disease.- Rare T-Cell Lymphomas.- CD30+ Diseases: Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma and Lymphomatoid Papulosis.- Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin's Lymphoma.- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.- Systemic Mastocytosis.