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Autorentext
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
Inhalt
General Pathology
1 The Cell as Unit of Health and Disease
2 Cell Injury
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 739
17 The Gastrointestinal Tract 763
18 The 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 Diseases of Peripheral Nerves
28 The Central Nervous System
29 The Eye