Table of Contents

GENERAL PATHOLOGY 1. The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease 2. Cellular Responses to Stress and Toxic Insults: Adaptation, Injury, and Death 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 17. The Gastrointestinal Tract 18. 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. Peripheral Nerves and Skeletal Muscles 28. The Central Nervous System 29. The Eye

About the Author

Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Alice Hogge and Arthur A. Baer Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology, Biological Sciences Division and The Pritzker Medical School, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts