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Underwood's Pathology: A Clinical Approach

  • 8th Edition - June 25, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Simon S. Cross
  • Language: English

A thorough understanding of pathology is crucial for doctors and a foundation for safe and effective clinical practice. This internationally renowned, award-winning textbook… Read more

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A thorough understanding of pathology is crucial for doctors and a foundation for safe and effective clinical practice. This internationally renowned, award-winning textbook provides a comprehensive overview, aligned to the needs of current medical students and early career stage doctors.

The book starts with a clear introduction to the basic principles of pathology, then moves on to more detailed discussion of disease mechanisms and the pathology of specific disorders ordered by body system. The text has been fully updated for this eighth edition and optimized for efficient study.

Complete with unrivalled photographs, images, graphics and supplementary electronic materials, Underwood’s Pathology is the complete learning package no medical student should be without.

Key features

  • Comprehensive but concise and understandable for medical students - also suitable for junior doctors, early career pathologists/histopathologists, dental students and biomedical scientists
  • Ideal for integrated, systems-based courses and problem-based learning – reflects modern medical curricula
  • Structure makes content highly accessible – easy to look up any pathology seen in the classroom or on the wards
  • Presents pathology in the context of modern cellular and molecular biology and contemporary clinical practice
  • Unrivalled collection of nearly 700 clinical photographs, histopathology images and graphics
  • Includes a full patient symptoms index plus multiple quick-reference summary tables
  • Prepared by leading pathology experts and educators – for coverage you can trust
  • A complete eBook with BONUS electronic materials further supports and enhances the learning experience

Readership

Medical students

Table of contents

PART 1 BASIC PATHOLOGY

1. What is pathology?

2. What is disease?

3. What causes disease?

PART 2 DISEASE MECHANISMS

4. Disorders of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis

5. Responses to cellular injury

6. Disorders of metabolism and homoeostasis

7. Ischaemia, infarction and shock

8. Immunology and immunopathology

9. Infammation

10. Neoplasia and carcinogenesis

11. Ageing and death

12. How do pathologists help patient care?

PART 3 SYSTEMATIC PATHOLOGY

13. Cardiovascular system

14. Respiratory system

15. Alimentary system

16. Liver, biliary system and pancreas

17. Endocrine system

18. Breast

19. Female genital tract

20. Urinary and male genital tracts

21. Kidney diseases

22. Lymph nodes and extranodal lymphoid tissue, spleen and thymus

23. Blood and bone marrow

24. Skin

25. Osteoarticular and connective tissues

26. Central and peripheral nervous systems

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 13, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Simon S. Cross

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Diagnostic Histopathology and Honorary Consultant, Histopathologist, Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health, The University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, UK