Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease

by Richard N Mitchell MD, PhD, Vinay Kumar MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Abul K. Abbas MBBS, Jon C. Aster MD, PhD

Overview

Offering rapid, portable access to key concepts and principles of pathology from Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th Edition, this up-to-date Pocket Companion makes it easy to locate essential information on the go. The condensed, at-a-glance format, organized to parallel the parent text, is ideal for quick review—anytime, anywhere.

• Features cutting-edge information on important topics such as novel therapies for hepatitis C, personalized medicine, the role of microbiome and metabolome in non-communicable disease, and much more. 

• Includes new gross and microscopic figures for clarity of morphology and new artwork depicting the latest advances in molecular pathogenesis of cancers. 

• Reflects updated page references and content changes found in to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th Edition. 

• Contains all the key data and principles needed for the USMLE Step 1, in-course exams, and rotations. 

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323653909
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/16/2023
Series:	Robbins Pathology
Edition description:	10th ed.
Pages:	1040
Sales rank:	689,355
Product dimensions:	4.38(w) x 7.38(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard N Mitchell, MD, PhD, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Staff Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

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

Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

General Pathology

1. The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease
2. Cell Injury, Cell Death, and Adaptations
3. Inflammation and Repair
4. Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolic Disease, and Shock
5. Genetic Disorders
6. Diseases of the Immune System
7. Neoplasia
8. Infectious Diseases
9. Environmental and Nutritional Diseases
10. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

Systemic Pathology: Diseases of Organ Systems

11. Blood Vessels
12. The Heart
13. Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus
14. Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders
15. The Lung
16. Head and Neck
17. The Gastrointestinal Tract
18. Liver and Gallbladder
19. The Pancreas
20. The Kidney
21. The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System
22. The Female Genital Tract
23. The Breast
24. The Endocrine System
25. The Skin
26. Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Tumors
27. Peripheral Nerves and Skeletal Muscles
28. The Central Nervous System
29. The Eye

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From the Publisher

Portable access to the key components from Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease!

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer:Jason Swink(University of Kansas Medical Center)
Description:This is an update of a pocket reference to the Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. The previous edition was published in 1999.
Purpose:Three goals are presented in the preface: to facilitate the reading and comprehension of the more detailed presentations in the parent book by providing introductory overviews along with relevant page numbers referenced to the main text; to help students identify the core material that requires their primary attention; to serve as a useful tool for the review of a large body of information. These are worthy objectives, and the book meets them.
Audience:This book was written for medical students and residents. It is not targeted at any particular specialty. The authors are unquestionably authorities in the education of pathology.
Features:This pocket companion has a title long enough to foreshadow the mass of information in this physically small book. The authors have taken on the challenge of condensing the entire subject of pathology and they have succeeded, striking a balance between the small size and complete information. At more than 700 pages, and with small print, this is not the cursory overview implied by the term "Pocket Companion." It does, however, provide a great deal of information in a well-organized format. It matches the main text, chapter for chapter, with 20 to 30 pages dedicated to each 40 to 50-page chapter in the big book. There are certain uses for which the book might not be ideal. It simply has too much information to be used as an introduction to pathology, or aboard prep resource for medical students. With this density of information, there is no reason for a medical student to bypass the main text for this pocket companion. With that said, there is a valuable use for this book. It is a wonderful resource to be used in a clinical setting. The portability, as well as the 80-page index, make it easy to carry and easy to find information. It doesn't sacrifice information, just print size and page thickness. Each section on a particular disease is intuitively laid out, with a nice flow. Each section includes page numbers for the main text, which might be of limited value. A person using the pocket companion as a portable reference would have to write down this page number for later use, which probably will not be necessary, since the main text has a comprehensive index of its own. To summarize, this pocket companion is a huge book in a small dense package. It has more information than a typical pocket book, and in fact probably has more information than a fair number of pathology textbooks. It will be a useful tool for clinicians who want complete pathology information at their fingertips.
Assessment:This book can only be compared with the others of its own series. It is of the same quality, just a more compact format.