Table of Contents

General pathology: cellular pathology I - cell injury and cell death; cellular pathology II - adaptations, intracellular accumulations, and cell ageing; acute and chronic inflammation; tissue repair - cellular growth, fibrosis, and wound healing; haemodynamic disorders, thrombosis, and shock; genetic disorders; diseases of immunity; neoplasia; infectious diseases; environmental and nutritional pathology; diseases of infancy and childhood. Diseases of organ systems: blood vessels; the heart; red cells and bleeding disorders; white cells, lymph nodes, spleen and thymus; the lung; head and neck; the gastrointestinal tract; the liver and the biliary tract; the pancreas; the kidney; the lower urinary tract; the male genital tract; the female genital tract; the breast; the endocrine system; the skin; bones, joints and soft tissue tumours; peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle; the central nervous system; the eye.

About the Author

Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Alice Hogge and Arthur A. Baer Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology, Biologic Sciences Division and the Pritzker Medical School, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Reviews

Review of Previous Edition: "...A welcome and much needed reassertion of the central importance of pathology in all of medical education." -JAMA