Robbins, Cotran and Kumar Review of Pathology

6. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-443-40776-5
Verlag: Churchill Livingstone

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm

Fully updated throughout, Robbins, Cotran and Kumar Review of Pathology, 6th Edition, offers authoritative, focused content on all major areas in general pathology and organ system pathology. Part of the highly regarded Robbins family of texts, this easy-to-use review contains 2,200 questions and answers, both in print and electronic formats, to help you master the most important principles and facts in pathology for coursework and exams. Questions and answers have been written, reviewed, updated, and explained by experts in the field, ensuring that your knowledge is up to date, thorough, clinically relevant, and targeted to the needs of your course. - Contains 1,500 vignette-style questions in print that reinforce clinical applications and incorporate key patient care and diagnostic strategies (history, physical examination, laboratory testing, and radiologic imaging). The accompanying enhanced eBook version includes 700 additional interactive questions, covering more challenging topics and less common conditions
- Uses the single-best-answer question format to reflect levels of difficulty that prepare you for examinations. Questions are written in the style of USMLE, MLA (AKT), and MCCQE questions that you will encounter for qualifying examinations. Answers and detailed explanations for every question are found at the end of each chapter, expanding upon diagnostic reasoning
- Covers the fundamentals of gross and microscopic pathology as well as the latest findings in molecular biology and genetics
- Incorporates recent changes in the understanding of the pathophysiology underlying disease processes as well as the approach to workup and diagnosis of disease conditions
- Reflects the breadth of content in the leading Robbins, Cotran & Kumar textbooks, Pathologic Basis of Disease and Basic Pathology, following the chapters for guided review and referencing them for further study
- Helps you visualize key pathologic concepts and conditions with over 300 full-color images
- Provides a final online chapter containing a comprehensive exam of 120 USMLE-style questions covering the range of topics from across the entire book
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klatt, Edward C.

Kumar, Vinay

Ritschel, Barbara

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Unit I General Pathology
1. Cellular Adaptations, Cell Injury, and Cell Death
2. Acute and Chronic Inflammation
3. Tissue Renewal and Repair: Regeneration, Healing, and Fibrosis
4. Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolic Disease, and Shock
5. Genetic Disorders
6. Diseases of Immunity
7. Neoplasia
8. Infectious Diseases
9. Environmental and Nutritional Pathology
10. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

Unit II Diseases of Organ Systems
11. Blood Vessels
12. The Heart
13. Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders
14. Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus
15. The Lung
16. Head and Neck
17. The Gastrointestinal Tract
18. Liver and Biliary Tract
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 Nerve and Skeletal Muscle
28. The Central Nervous System
29. The Eye

Über Autor(innen)

Kumar, Vinay
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