Overview
Robbins Basic Pathology delivers the pathology knowledge you need, the way you need it, from the name you can trust! This medical textbook’s unbeatable author team helps you efficiently master the core concepts you need to know for your courses and USMLE exams.
• Get a rich understanding of all essential pathology concepts with expert guidance from an all-star editorial team.
• Grasp the connections between basic science and clinical medicine with clinicopathologic correlations throughout.
• Access information anywhere - from the coffee shop to the classroom - with full-text online access at studentconsult.com.
• Take your learning farther with targeted therapy boxes, clinical cases, virtual microscope slides, and self-assessment questions online!
• Learn core concepts quickly and efficiently with a highly templated design that highlights pathogenesis and morphology.
• New interior design with a more modern look
• Artwork revised and updated for a more modern look and more three-dimensional feel
• Targeted Therapy boxes included in online text - provides clinical information on appropriate therapy related to the disease under discussion
• All photomicrographs and gross photos reviewed and improved to ensure excellent quality
A trusted title in the world of pathology, Robbins offers easy-to-access information that’s concise and accurate
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Carmen Winters, BS(University of Kansas Medical Center)Description: This is the ninth edition of a thorough yet concise overview of pathology, organized by organ system, which also includes chapters on general pathology.
Purpose: As a pared down version of the larger textbook, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 8th edition, Kumar et al. (Elsevier, 2009), it targets the modern medical student who may not have the luxury of time to read such a large book.
Audience: This will be a very useful resource to its audience of medical students, because it focuses on more common and high-yield pathology, without dumbing down the material.
Features: The book first covers topics of general pathology, such as cell injury, inflammation, and neoplasia. These are topics that the main textbook does so uniquely well, and this book also does an excellent job. Next are chapters on the pathology of specific organ systems. These chapters omit many of the rare entities and devote the bulk of the text to those that medical students are most likely to encounter. There are plenty of high-quality color illustrations, including photomicrographs, gross photos, and a variety of charts. Chapters are also broken up by subtopics into colored boxes, which is very appealing to overwhelmed readers.
Assessment: This excellent book is ideal for medical students to read cover-to-cover. Although the main textbook is an unbeatable resource, its size makes it unrealistic that medicals students could completely digest it. This version strikes a good balance, still providing students with an in-depth discussion of disease process, but avoiding an overwhelming list of entities.