Concise Clinical Embryology: an Integrated, Case-Based Approach Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card): Concise Clinical Embryology: an ... E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card)

Torchia MSc PhD, Mark G.; Persaud MD PhD DSc FRCPath (Lond.) FAAA, T. V. N.

ISBN 10: 0323696821 ISBN 13: 9780323696821

Publisher: Elsevier, 2021

Synopsis

Written by the authors of the renowned embryology textbooks The Developing Human and Before We Are Born, Concise Clinical Embryology: An Integrated, Case-Based Approach offers essential, high-yield information and high-quality clinical cases to illustrate key principles of embryology and their relevance to everyday practice. Ideally tailored to the needs of today’s medical students and medical courses, this concise text clearly explains how embryology relates to other medical disciplines and its importance in safe, effective clinical practice. Abundant illustrations throughout help you grasp highly visual concepts quickly and easily.

• Provides easily digestible, clinically oriented coverage of human development, establishing key principles in a week-by-week, stage-by-stage approach, before moving on to fetal organ development by body system.
• Includes clinical cases and follow-up questions in each chapter that help relate key principles to everyday practice, aid in problem-based learning, and offer review for exam preparation.
• Covers the latest advances in embryology, including normal and abnormal embryogenesis, causes of birth defects, and the role of genes in human development.
• Contains superb illustrations from cover to cover, including diagnostic images, full color figures, histology, and more.
• Summarizes molecular biology highlights throughout the text.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0323696821
• ISBN 13: 9780323696821
• Binding: Printed Access Code
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128