COVER -- TITLE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF LESSONS IN NORMAL IMMUNITY -- INTRODUCTION TO CASE STUDIES: A GUIDE TO USING THIS BOOK -- Unit I IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES -- INTRODUCTION: ORGANIZATION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND EVALUATION OF THE IMMUNODEFICIENT PATIENT -- 1 X-LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA (BRUTON'S AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA) -- 2 SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASE -- 3 DiGEORGE SYNDROME (CONGENITAL THYMIC APLASIA) -- 4 HYPER-IgM SYNDROME -- 5 COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASE -- 6 AUTOIMMUNE LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE SYNDROME (ALPS) -- 7 X-LINKED LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE SYNDROME -- 8 HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA -- 9 ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME -- Unit II IMMEDIATE HYPERSENSITIVITY AND MAST CELL DISORDERS -- INTRODUCTION: WHEN ANTIGENS BECOME ALLERGENS -- 10 MASTOCYTOSIS -- 11 ANAPHYLAXIS -- 12 ASTHMA -- 13 THE VASCULITIDES -- Unit III AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS -- INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS AND MECHANISMS OF TOLERANCE -- 14 MYASTHENIA GRAVIS -- 15 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS -- 16 DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 1 -- 17 CELIAC DISEASE -- 18 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE -- 19 PSORIASIS -- 20 IgA NEPHROPATHY AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION -- 21 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -- 22 SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS -- 23 SCLERODERMA -- Unit IV MALIGNANCIES OF THE LYMPHOID SYSTEM -- INTRODUCTION: CLASSIFICATION OF LYMPHOID MALIGNANCIES -- 24 CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA/SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMA -- 25 FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA -- 26 PLASMA CELL NEOPLASMS -- Unit V -- LABORATORY TESTS USED IN THE WORKUP OF PATIENTS WITH IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES -- Index.