6th Edition
by Geraldine O'Dowd, Sarah Bell, Sylvia Wright
This concise introduction to pathology covers basic
pathological mechanisms and offers a detailed review of systems
pathology, making it a complete, effective review for today’s readers. Hundreds of high-quality images―many new to this edition―illustrate common entities, and associated captions provide key pathological points. Reader-friendly text clarifies basic and complex information, helping you understand challenging concepts more easily. Wheater's Pathology is an excellent companion resource for users of Wheater's Functional Histology, 6th Edition, offering a comparison of normal histology with the pathological changes in disease.
- Contains a new chapter, Introduction to Pathology and Techniques,
that provides more background information on histology techniques,
immunohistochemistry, molecular tests and digital pathology.
- Contains new, full-color illustrations that depict additional pathological entities and update classifications.
- Includes access to online-only material such as new questions for each chapter, and numerous macroscopic images.
- Incorporates cutting-edge information on molecular pathology throughout.
- Includes quick-reference features such as keys to the lettering in images at the bottom of each page and fully revised clinical boxes
with clinical-pathological correlations that explain the relevance of
the pathological processes underlying common diseases and their
complications.
- Summarizes key points with chapter reviews at the end of each section.
