Primarilly designed for medical students and junior doctors in clinical practice, this should also be a useful reference to postgraduate students in chemical pathology (clinical biochemistry), laboratory scientists, pathologists and medical laboratory technologists. Covering the field of chemical pathology, the biochemical basis of disease, it provides a basic understanding of the relationship between abnormal biochemical test results and disease states. A rational approach to proper selection and interpretation of biochemical investigations is adopted for each organ system or analyte....