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Underwood's Pathology: a Clinical Approach
- 8th Edition - June 25, 2024
- Editor: Simon S. Cross
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 9 4 9 - 1
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 6 9 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 7 4 2 - 8
A thorough understanding of pathology is crucial for doctors and a foundation for safe and effective clinical practice. This internationally renowned, award-winning textbook… Read more
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Request a sales quoteA thorough understanding of pathology is crucial for doctors and a foundation for safe and effective clinical practice. This internationally renowned, award-winning textbook provides a comprehensive overview, aligned to the needs of current medical students and early career stage doctors.
The book starts with a clear introduction to the basic principles of pathology, then moves on to more detailed discussion of disease mechanisms and the pathology of specific disorders ordered by body system. The text has been fully updated for this eighth edition and optimized for efficient study.
Complete with unrivalled photographs, images, graphics and supplementary electronic materials, Underwood’s Pathology is the complete learning package no medical student should be without.
The book starts with a clear introduction to the basic principles of pathology, then moves on to more detailed discussion of disease mechanisms and the pathology of specific disorders ordered by body system. The text has been fully updated for this eighth edition and optimized for efficient study.
Complete with unrivalled photographs, images, graphics and supplementary electronic materials, Underwood’s Pathology is the complete learning package no medical student should be without.
- Comprehensive but concise and understandable for medical students - also suitable for junior doctors, early career pathologists/histopathologists, dental students and biomedical scientists
- Ideal for integrated, systems-based courses and problem-based learning – reflects modern medical curricula
- Structure makes content highly accessible – easy to look up any pathology seen in the classroom or on the wards
- Presents pathology in the context of modern cellular and molecular biology and contemporary clinical practice
- Unrivalled collection of nearly 700 clinical photographs, histopathology images and graphics
- Includes a full patient symptoms index plus multiple quick-reference summary tables
- Prepared by leading pathology experts and educators – for coverage you can trust
- A complete eBook with BONUS electronic materials further supports and enhances the learning experience
Medical students
Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index of Patient Symptoms
PART 1 BASIC PATHOLOGY
1 What is pathology?
2 What is disease?
3 What causes disease?
PART 2 DISEASE MECHANISMS
4 Disorders of growth, differentiation
and morphogenesis
5 Responses to cellular injury
6 Disorders of metabolism and
homoeostasis
7 Ischaemia, infarction and shock
8 Immunology and immunopathology
9 Infammation
10 Neoplasia and carcinogenesis
11 Ageing and death
12 How do pathologists help patient
care?
PART 3 SYSTEMATIC PATHOLOGY
13 Cardiovascular system
14 Respiratory system
15 Alimentary system
16 Liver, biliary system and pancreas
17 Endocrine system
18 Breast
19 Female genital tract
20 Urinary and male genital tracts
21 Kidney diseases
22 Lymph nodes and extranodal
lymphoid tissue, spleen and thymus
23 Blood and bone marrow
24 Skin
25 Osteoarticular and connective
tissues
26 Central and peripheral nervous
systems
Glossary
Index
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index of Patient Symptoms
PART 1 BASIC PATHOLOGY
1 What is pathology?
2 What is disease?
3 What causes disease?
PART 2 DISEASE MECHANISMS
4 Disorders of growth, differentiation
and morphogenesis
5 Responses to cellular injury
6 Disorders of metabolism and
homoeostasis
7 Ischaemia, infarction and shock
8 Immunology and immunopathology
9 Infammation
10 Neoplasia and carcinogenesis
11 Ageing and death
12 How do pathologists help patient
care?
PART 3 SYSTEMATIC PATHOLOGY
13 Cardiovascular system
14 Respiratory system
15 Alimentary system
16 Liver, biliary system and pancreas
17 Endocrine system
18 Breast
19 Female genital tract
20 Urinary and male genital tracts
21 Kidney diseases
22 Lymph nodes and extranodal
lymphoid tissue, spleen and thymus
23 Blood and bone marrow
24 Skin
25 Osteoarticular and connective
tissues
26 Central and peripheral nervous
systems
Glossary
Index
- No. of pages: 768
- Language: English
- Edition: 8
- Published: June 25, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443119491
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443116995
- eBook ISBN: 9780443117428
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Simon S. Cross
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Diagnostic Histopathology and Honorary Consultant, Histopathologist, Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health, The University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, UK