ROBBINS & COTRAN – PATHOLOGIC BASIS
ROBBINS & COTRAN – PATHOLOGIC BASIS OF DISEASE
Contents
CHAPTER 1 The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease
CHAPTER 2 Cell Injury, Cell Death, and Adaptations
CHAPTER 3 Inflammation and Repair
CHAPTER 4 Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolic Disease, and Shock
CHAPTER 5 Genetic Disorders
CHAPTER 6 Diseases of the Immune System
CHAPTER 7 Neoplasia
CHAPTER ۸ Infectious Diseases
CHAPTER ۹ Environmental and Nutritional Diseases
CHAPTER 10 Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
CHAPTER 11 Blood Vessels
CHAPTER 12 The Heart
CHAPTER 13 Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen,
CHAPTER 14 Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders
CHAPTER 15 The Lung
CHAPTER 16 Head and Neck
CHAPTER 17 The Gastrointestinal Tract
CHAPTER 18 Liver and Gallbladder
CHAPTER 19 The Pancreas
CHAPTER 20 The Kidney
CHAPTER 21 The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System
CHAPTER 22 The Female Genital Tract
CHAPTER 23 The Breast
CHAPTER 24 The Endocrine System
CHAPTER 25 The Skin
CHAPTER 26 Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Tumors
CHAPTER 27 Peripheral Nerves and Skeletal Muscles
CHAPTER 28 The Central Nervous System
CHAPTER 29 The Eye
Preface
As we launch the tenth edition of Pathologic Basis of Disease we look to the future of pathology as a discipline and how this textbook can remain most useful to readers in the twenty-first century. It is obvious that an understanding of disease mechanisms is based more than ever on a strong foundation of basic science.
We have always woven the relevant basic cell and molecular biology into the sections on pathophysiology in various chapters. In the previous edition we went one step further and introduced a new chapter at the very beginning of the book titled “The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease.” We are delighted that the chapter was found useful by many students and faculty.
Because progress in basic cell biology is moving at a very brisk pace, the chapter has been updated significantly.
In the preface of the very first edition (1957), Stanley Robbins wrote:
“The pathologist is interested not only in the recognition of structural alterations, but also in their significance, i.e., the effects of these changes on cellular and tissue function and ultimately the effect of these changes on the patient. It is not a discipline isolated from the living patient, but rather a basic approach to a better understanding of disease and therefore a foundation of sound clinical medicine.”
We hope we continue to illustrate the principles of pathology that Dr. Robbins enunciated with such elegance and clarity over half a century ago.
