Full Description
"...perfect not only for thoroughly understanding the basis of pathology, but also for looking up specific conditions." (Medical Student Review)Dependable, current, and complete, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th Edition is the perennially best-selling text that you'll use long after your medical student days are behind you. A world-class author team headed by Drs. Vinay Kumar, Abul Abbas, and Jon Aster, delivers the latest, most essential pathology knowledge in a readable, interesting manner, ensuring optimal understanding of the latest basic science and clinical content. High-quality photographs and full-color illustrations highlight new information in molecular biology, disease classifications, new drugs and drug therapies, and much more. Rely on uniquely authoritative and readable coverage, ideal for USMLE or specialty board preparation, as well as for course work.Simplify your study with an outstanding full-color, highly user-friendly design.Stay up to date with the latest information in molecular and genetic testing and mechanisms of disease.Consult new Targeted Therapy boxes online that discuss drug therapy for specific diseases.Gain a new perspective in key areas thanks to contributions from new authors at the top of their fields.Student Consult eBook version included with purchase. Further your understanding with access to a wealth of interactive ancillaries on the Student Consult site, including pathology case studies and videos and self-assessment questions.
Contents
General Pathology1. Cellular Responses to Stress and Toxic Insults: Adaptation, Injury, and Death2. Acute and Chronic Inflammation3. Tissue Renewal, Repair, and Regeneration4. Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolic Disease, and Shock5. Genetic Disorders6. Diseases of the Immune System7. Neoplasia8. Infectious Diseases9. Environmental and Nutritional Diseases10. Diseases of Infancy and ChildhoodSystemic Pathology: Diseases of Organ Systems11. Blood Vessels12. The Heart13. Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus14. Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders15. The Lung16. Head and Neck17. The Gastrointestinal Tract18. Liver and Biliary Tract19. The Pancreas20. The Kidney21. The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System22. The Female Genital Tract23. The Breast24. The Endocrine System25. The Skin26. Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Tumors27. Peripheral Nerve and Skeletal Muscle28. The Central Nervous System29. The Eye
