| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 1005 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The long road to the elementary patient -- Cellular adaptations -- Symptoms of cellular disease: intracellular accumulations -- Pathology of the organelles -- Cell injury and cell death -- Pathologic calcification -- Extracellular pathology -- Introduction to inflammation -- Inflammation: the actors and their language -- Four cardinal signs of inflammation -- Leukocytes called to action: steps to phagocytosis -- Inflammatory exudate -- Chronic inflammation -- Wound healing -- General effects of local injury and inflammation -- Variations and aberrations of the inflammatory response -- Hypersensitivity reactions -- Pathology of transplantation -- Autoimmune disease -- Immunosuppression -- Disturbances of fluid exchange -- Hemostasis and thrombosis -- Obstacles to blood flow -- Ischemia and shock -- Tumors: names and personalities -- Anatomy and biology of tumors -- Tumor aggression -- Causes of tumors -- Genes and tumors -- Antitumor defenses -- Reversibility of tumors -- Epidemiology of human cancer -- What is a tumor? -- Tumors as a clinical problem |
| Summary |
Lays out the principles of general pathology for biomedical researchers, grad students, medical students, and physicians, with elegance and deep insight. Disease processes are explained in the light of malfunctions at the cellular level, offering a rich understanding of the clinical correlates of all aspects of fundamental cellular physiology and basic biomedicine. The book has been fully revised and updated to present a current but deep understanding of disease states at the cell and tissue levels - cellular pathology, inflammation, immunopathology vascular disturbance, and tumor biology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Pathology.
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Histology.
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Histology
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Pathology
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pathology.
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MEDICAL -- Pathology.
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MEDICAL -- Pathophysiology.
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Histology
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Pathology
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Pathologie
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Histologie.
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Pathologie.
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Histology.
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Pathology.
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Joris, Isabelle.
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| LC no. |
2003050657 |
| ISBN |
9780199748921 |
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0199748926 |
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142942138X |
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9781429421386 |
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9786610834969 |
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6610834962 |
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9781280834967 |
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128083496X |
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