| Description |
xi, 986 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Saunders' pocket essentials.
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| Contents |
Basic Pathology -- 1. The nature of pathology -- 2. Cell injury and its manifestations -- 3. Cell and tissue death -- 4. Acute inflammation I: Introduction -- 5. Acute inflammation II: Cellular events -- 6. Factors that modify the inflammatory reaction -- 7. The natural history of acute inflammation I: Healing -- 8. The natural history of acute inflammation II: Wound healing -- 9. The natural history of acute inflammation III: Chronicity -- 10. The immune system -- 11. Disorders related to the immune system -- 12. Autoimmune disease -- 13. Transplantation and the major histocompatibility complex -- 14. Granulomatous inflammation -- 15. Some specific granulomatous disorders -- 16. Amyloid and the amyloidoses -- 17. General pathology of viral infection -- 18. Disorders of blood flow: a basis -- 19. Ischaemia and infarction -- 20. Abnormal accumulations of fluid and disturbances of blood distribution -- 21. Pigmentation and heterotropic calcification -- 22. Neoplasia: disorders of cell proliferation and differentiation -- 23. Non-neoplastic disturbances in cell growth and proliferation -- 24. Cell proliferation and differentiation in relation to neoplasia -- 25. Relationship of neoplastic cells with their environment: tumour spread -- 26. Effects of neoplasms on the host -- 27. Effect of the host on neoplasms -- 28. Oncogenesis and the molecular biology of cancer -- 29. Oncogenesis -- 30. Genetic disorders -- 31. Single gene defects -- Systemic Pathology -- 32. The cardiovascular system -- 33. The respiratory system -- 34. The gastrointestinal system -- 35. The liver, biliary system and exocrine pancreas -- 36. The kidney -- 37. The lower urinary tract -- 38. The male reproductive system -- 39. The female reproductive system -- 40. The endocrine system -- 41. The haemopoletic system -- 42. The lymphoreticular system -- 43. The skin -- 44. The skeletal system -- 45. The nervous system -- 46. Special senses |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Pathology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Pathology.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbook.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Wotherspoon, A. C. (Andy C.)
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Young, Martin, MRCPath.
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| LC no. |
2002021036 |
| ISBN |
0702023949 paperback |
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