Robbins Basic Pathology

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Jan 1, 2013 - Medical - 910 pages

Robbins Basic Pathology delivers the pathology knowledge you need, the way you need it, from the name you can trust! This medical textbook's unbeatable author team helps you efficiently master the core concepts you need to know for your courses and USMLE exams.



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A trusted title in the world of pathology, Robbins offers easy-to-access information that's concise and accurate

 

Contents

Chapter 3 Hemodynamic Disorders Thromboembolism and Shock
75
Chapter 4 Diseases of the Immune System
99
Chapter 5 Neoplasia
161
Chapter 6 Genetic and Pediatric Diseases
215
Chapter 7 Environmental and Nutritional Diseases
269
Chapter 8 General Pathology of Infectious Diseases
309
Chapter 9 Blood Vessels
327
Chapter 10 Heart
365
Chapter 15 Liver Gallbladder and Biliary Tract
603
Chapter 16 Pancreas
645
Chapter 17 Male Genital System and Lower Urinary Tract
657
Chapter 18 Female Genital System and Breast
681
Chapter 19 Endocrine System
715
Chapter 20 Bones Joints and Soft Tissue Tumors
765
Chapter 21 Peripheral Nerves and Muscles
797
Chapter 22 Central Nervous System
811

Chapter 11 Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Systems
407
Chapter 12 Lung
459
Chapter 13 Kidney and Its Collecting System
517
Chapter 14 Oral Cavity and Gastrointestinal Tract
551
Chapter 23 Skin
851
Index
871
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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 Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

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