List of contributors; Preface; 1. Flow cytometry in clinical hematopathology: basic principles and data analysis of multiparameter data sets Francis Lacombe and Marie C. Béné; 2. Antigens Marie-Christine Béné and Anna Porwit; 3. Flow cytometry of normal blood, bone marrow and lymphatic tissue Anna Porwit and Marie-Christine Béné; 4. Reactive conditions and other diseases where flow cytometric findings may mimic hematological malignancies Wolfgang Kern, Marie-Christine Béné and Anna Porwit; 5. Examples of immunophenotypic features in various categories of acute leukaemia Marie-Christine Béné and Anna Porwit; 6. Acute lymphoid leukaemias and minimal residual disease in all Giuseppe Basso, Barbara Buldini and Andrea Zangrando; 7. Immunophenotyping of mature B-cell lymphomas Olof Axler and Anna Porwit; 8. Plasma cell myeloma and related disorders Ruth M. de Tute, Andrew C. Rawstron and Roger G. Owen; 9. Mature T-cell Neoplasms and NK-cell malignancies Anne Tierens; 10. Flow cytometric diagnosis of hodgkin lymphoma in lymph nodes Lori Soma, Brent L. Wood and Jonathan R. Fromm; 11. Minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukaemia Gerrit J. Schuurhuis, Angèle Kelder, Gert J. Ossenkoppele, Jacqueline Cloos and Wendelien Zeijlemaker; 12. Ambiguous lineage and mixed phenotype acute leukemia Anna Porwit and Marie-Christine Béné; 13. Flow cytometry in myelodysplastic syndromes T. M. Westers and A. A. van de Loosdrecht; 14. Future applications of flow cytometry and related techniques Marie Christine Béné and Francis Lacombe; Index.