| Description |
xvi, 1391 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
The cell as a unit of health and disease -- Cellular responses to stress and toxic insults: adaptation, injury, and death -- Inflammation and repair -- Hemodynamic disorders, thromboembolic disease, and shock -- Genetic disorders -- Diseases of the immune system -- Neoplasia -- Infectious diseases -- Environmental and nutritional diseases -- Diseases of infancy and childhood -- Blood vessels -- The heart -- Diseases of white blood cells, lymph nodes, spleen, and thymus -- Red blood cell and bleeding disorders -- The lung -- Head and neck -- The gastrointestional tract -- Liver and gallbladder -- The pancreas -- The kidney -- The lower urinary tract and male genital system -- The female genital tract -- The breast -- The endocrine system -- The skin -- Bones, joints, and soft tissue tumors -- Peripheral nerves and skeletal muscles -- The central nervous system -- The eye |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pathology.
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Pathologic Processes.
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| Author |
Kumar, Vinay, 1944- editor
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Abbas, Abul K., editor
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Aster, Jon C., editor
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| LC no. |
2014017443 |
| ISBN |
9781455726134 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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1455726133 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780808924500 (international edition : alk. paper) |
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0808924508 (international edition : alk. paper) |
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9780323266161 (professional edition : alk. paper) |
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0323266169 (professional edition : alk. paper) |
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