Robins & Cotran Review Of Pathology (Paperback)

This easy-to-use new edition of Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology helps you effectively master the most important principles and facts in pathology. More than 1,100 questions reinforce the fundamentals of gross and microscopic pathology as well as the latest findings in molecular biology and genetics. Based on two of the best-selling, most authoritative pathology textbooks—Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 8th Edition and Robbins Basic Pathology, 8th Edition—Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology is an ideal aid for coursework, self-assessment, and examinations, including the IJSMLE Step 1 examination.

Salient Features
* Offers questions in the clinical vignette style, emphasizing problem solving over rote memorization. Presented in single-best-answer format, they reflect levels of difficulty that prepare you for examinations.
* Provides an answer and a detailed explanation for every question at the end of each chapter that helps you recognize your strengths and improve your weaknesses.
* Features new questions that reflect today's hot topics in pathology, keeping you up to date on today's knowledge.
* Delivers a final comprehensive test of more than 70 questions on random exam topics that mimics the USMLE Step 1.
* Presents correlative laboratory, radiologic, and physical diagnostic data to enhance your
* understanding of pathophysiology and integrate pathology with other medical disciplines.
* Includes numerous full-color illustrations--many new to this edition—to test your diagnostic skills and enhance visual guidance.
* Uses a new chapter arrangement to conform to the new Table of Contents in Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease 8th Edition, for easier cross referencing.

Table of Contents
Unit I General Pathology
1 Cellular Pathology
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 Diseases
10 Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

Unit II Systemic Pathology: Diseases of Organ Systems
11 Blood Vessels
12 The Heart
13 Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus
14 Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders
15 The Lung
16 Head and Neck
17 The Gastrointestinal Tract
18 The Liver and the 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

Unit III Integrative Reviews
30 Clinical Pathology
31 Final Review and Assessment