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Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease:South Asia Edition

  • 1st Edition -
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Jon C. Aster
  • Language: English

Dependable, current, and complete, this perennially best-selling text is one that you’ll use long after your medical student days are behind you. A world-class author team delivers… Read more

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Dependable, current, and complete, this perennially best-selling text is one that you’ll use long after your medical student days are behind you. A world-class author team 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.

Key features

• Latest Information: Stay up to date with the latest information in molecular and genetic testing and mechanisms of disease.• Reliable: Rely on uniquely authoritative and readable coverage.• User-friendly Design: Simplify your study with an outstanding full-color, highly user-friendly design.• Written by Experts: Gain a new perspective in key areas – thanks to contributions from new authors at the top of their fields.

Table of contents

GENERAL PATHOLOGY1. The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease 2. Cellular Responses to Stress and Toxic Insults: Adaptation, Injury, and Death 3. Inflammation and Repair 4. Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolic Disease, and Shock5. Genetic Disorders 6. Diseases of the Immune System 7. Neoplasia 8. Infectious Diseases 9. Environmental and Nutritional Diseases 10. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood SYSTEMIC PATHOLOGY: DISEASES OF ORGAN SYSTEMS11. Blood Vessels 12. The Heart 13. Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus 14. Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders 15. The Lung 16. Head and Neck17. The Gastrointestinal Tract 18. Liver and Gallbladder 19. The Pancreas 20. The Kidney 21. The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System 22. The Female Genital Tract 23. The Breast 24. The Endocrine System 25. The Skin 26. Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Tumors 27. Peripheral Nerves and Skeletal Muscles 28. The Central Nervous System 29. The Eye

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 14, 2014
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Vinay Kumar

Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Alice Hogge and Arthur A. Baer Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology, Biologic Sciences Division and the Pritzker Medical School, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

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Abul K. Abbas

Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, USA

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Jon C. Aster

Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA