Wheater's Basic Pathology: A Text, Atlas and Review of Histopathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Wheater's Histology and Pathology) - Softcover

Stewart BSc MBChB PhD DipFMS MRCPath, William; O'Dowd BSc (Hons) MBChB (Hons) FRCPath, Geraldine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 044306797X ISBN 13: 9780443067976

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2009

Synopsis

THE NEW EDITION OF WHEATER'S BASIC HISTOPATHOLOGY! Wheater's Basic Pathology is a pathology resource that offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject first by covering fundamental pathological processes and then addressing the common diseases encountered in systems pathology. Hundreds of high-quality images illustrate the essential features of pathology and make it easy to make definitive comparisons to your own lab samples, while concise captions enable you to quickly and easily understand key points. New online access via Student Consult further enhances your study of the material with additional valuable content including USMLE-style questions, and much more. Wheater’s Basic Pathology is an excellent companion resource for users of Wheater’s Functional Histology, Wheater’s Review of Histology & Basic Pathology, or Robbins and Cotran Pathology Flash Cards.

• Offers discussions of basic pathological processes as well as coverage of common diseases encountered in systems pathology for a complete review.
• Includes comprehensive updates, with relevant molecular pathology issues explained in the context of the clinical presentation, the treatment implications, and the underlying pathological processes
• Presents nearly 650 images of the highest quality that vividly and clearly illustrate the essential features of pathology and enable you to make definitive comparisons to your own lab views.
• Features concise text that distills basic and complex information into a coherent explanation to help you understand key points quickly and easily.
• Provides keys to the lettering in images at the bottom of each page, saving you time in reviewing figures.
• Serves as a companion text to Wheater’s Functional Histology, 5th Edition, offering a comparison of normal histology with the pathological changes in disease.
• Features a short review section at the end of each chapter covering the key point of the chapter in brief form for the perfect pairing of reference and review.

• Includes online access to Student Consult where you'll find the complete text and illustrations from the book, fully searchable • additional USMLE-style questions for self assessment • access to free images and related text from Wheater’s Functional Histology, 5th Edition • and a Virtual Histolab with study aims and slides which can be enlarged for viewing.
• Provides additional coloured text boxes with clinical-pathological correlations that explain the relevance of the pathological processes underlying common diseases and their complications.

FOR FACULTY

• Features online access to Evolve Resources including a high-resolution image bank with all the illustrations, figures and tables from the book, and a test bank.

About this title

About the Author

Geraldine O’Dowd is a Consultant Diagnostic Pathologist for Lanarkshire NHS Board and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Glasgow. Geraldine lead the author team on the most recent edition of Wheater’s Pathology, as well as being both a previous author on the 5th edition of that title and an author on the 6th edition of Wheater’s Functional Histology

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 044306797X
• ISBN 13: 9780443067976
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 348