Basic Pathology, Fourth Edition

by Lakhani; Sunil

• ISBN13: 9780340950036
• ISBN10: 034095003X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-01-30
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

While being both entertaining and enjoyable, this new edition of Basic Pathology is a straightforward introduction to pathology and the mechanisms of disease. It puts pathology into its historical, scientific and clinical context for all medical, dental and nursing students and other health professionals. Basic Pathology has been brought fully up-to-date in this new edition, and once again covers four main themes: What is a Disease, Defense Against Disease, Circulatory Disorders, and Disorders of Cell Growth; highlighting key mechanisms and their interplay in producing symptoms, signs and disease. With new cartoons to illustrate key points and make those study hours pass by with ease, the book also retains the much-praised clinical scenarios, historical anecdotes and key facts boxes.

Table of Contents

What is a Disease?

Prologue: What is a disease?

Causes and mechanisms: general principles

What causes disease?

Defence Against Disease

Introduction: The role of epidemiology in disease

The bodys response to infection

The acute inflammatory response

Chronic and granulomatous inflammation, healing and repair

Immune defence against infection

Circulatory Disorders

Introduction: Features of circulatory disorders

Vascular occlusion and thrombosis

Atherosclerosis and hypertension

Circulatory failure

Of Cell Growth and its Disorders

Introduction: A brief history of cancer

Benign growth disorders

Malignant neoplasms

What causes cancer?

Molecular genetics of cancer

The behaviour of tumours

The clinical effects of tumours

Epilogue

Index

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