Key Features
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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). Online, 500 additional interactive questions cover more challenging topics and less common conditions.
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Uses single-best-answer and extended-matching formats to reflect levels of difficulty that prepare you for examinations. Questions are written in the style of USMLE and MCCQE questions that you will encounter for qualifying examinations.
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Covers the fundamentals of gross and microscopic pathology as well as the latest findings in molecular biology and genetics. Answers and detailed explanations for every question are found at the end of each chapter.
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Incorporates recent changes in the understanding of the pathophysiology underlying disease processes as well as the approach to workup and diagnosis of disease conditions.
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Reflects the breadth of content in the leading Robbins & Cotran textbooks Pathologic Basis of Disease and Basic Pathology, following the chapters for guided review and referencing them for further study.
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Helps you visualize key pathologic concepts and conditions with over 300 full-color images.
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Provides a final comprehensive exam of over 75 USMLE-style questions covering the range of topics from across the book.
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Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
- Unit I General Pathology
- 1 The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease
- 2 Cellular Pathology
- 3 Inflammation and Repair
- 4 Hemodynamic Disorders
- 5 Genetic Disorders
- 6 Immune System Diseases
- 7 Neoplastic Disorders
- 8 Infectious Diseases
- 9 Environmental and Nutritional Diseases
- 10 Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
- Unit II Diseases of Organ Systems
- 11 Blood Vessels
- 12 The Heart
- 13 Hematopathology of White Blood Cells
- 14 Hematopathology of Red Blood Cells and Bleeding Disorders
- 15 The Lung
- 16 Head and Neck
- 17 Gastrointestinal Tract
- 18 Liver and Biliary Tract
- 19 Pancreas
- 20 Kidney
- 21 The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System
- 22 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 Central Nervous System
- 29 The Eye
- 30 Final Review and Assessment
This book is an excellent tool to access one's understanding of pathology. I will advise it as mandatory supplement to Robbins Pathological Basis of Disease.
This is my favorite textbook for linking pathophysiology with therapeutics; and I use the textbook for integrating all the second year curriculum