One of the best-selling medical textbooks of all time, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease is the one book you probably purchased as a medical student that still provides answers now that you're in practice. The new PROFESSIONAL EDITION is the same "who's who" of pathology experts that delivers the most dependable, current, and complete coverage of today's essential pathology knowledge, now with BENEFITS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU AS A PRACTITIONER. Masterful editing and a practical organisation make learning or reinforcing every concept remarkably easy. Online access via Expert Consult gives downloadable images, search functionality, and free access to a differential diagnosis tool. New to this edition With activation at ExpertConsult.com, get full text online access to the Robbins Professional Edition, accessible from any computer connected to the Internet Download more than 1600 full-color photomicrographs and conceptual diagrams for use in your talks or lectures Search across your entire Expert Consult collection, including Robbins!, to maximize your understanding of the pathologic basis of any disease you're querying Gain FREE access to PathConsultDDx.com, a powerful differential diagnosis tool that helps you sign out more cases, faster By Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA; Nelson Fausto, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Table of Contents: General Pathology 1. Cellular Responses to Stress and Toxic Insults: Adaptation, Injury, and Death 2. Acute and Chronic Inflammation 3. Tissue Renewal, Repair, and Regeneration 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 Biliary Tract 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 Nerve and Skeletal Muscle 28. The Central Nervous System 29. The Eye Index
