Product Description One of the best-selling medical textbooks of all time, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease is the one book that nearly all medical students purchase, and is also widely used by physicians worldwide. A "who's who" of pathology experts delivers the most dependable, current, and complete coverage of today's essential pathology knowledge. At the same time, masterful editing and a practical organization make mastering every concept remarkably easy. Online access via Student Consult includes self-assessment and review questions, interactive case studies, downloadable images, videos, and a virtual microscope that lets you view slides at different magnifications. The result remains the ideal source for an optimal understanding of pathology.
Offers the most authoritative and comprehensive, yet readable coverage available in any pathology textbook, making it ideal for USMLE or specialty board preparation as well as for course work.
Includes access to the complete contents online via Student Consult, along with self-assessment and review questions, over 100 interactive clinical case studies, downloadable images, videos, and a virtual microscope that lets users view slides at different magnifications.
Delivers a state-of-the-art understanding of the pathologic basis of disease through completely updated coverage, including the latest cellular and molecular biology.
Demonstrates every concept visually with over 1,600 full-color photomicrographs and conceptual diagrams - many revised for even better quality.
Facilitates learning with an outstanding full-color, highly user-friendly design.
Ordered a new book but got a used one...January 31, 2010 Gerrid K. Warner(TX) 1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book was supposed to be "new". The book i got was used and the regiser PIN had already been scratched/used. The book is in good condition.
Great book as always but bad Amazon serviceJanuary 30, 2010 Joao Carmo(DC, USA) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book as always for a not so good, but normal, price for a new book. And only now I realized that I purchased a 2010 book with almost 5 months in advance! I read the versions 1999 and 2003 while on College and Master in Pathology, respectively. It's amazing how the new authors can keep the usual humor although this is a dense theme and not a comedy textbook. They also have already updated many chapters, including references published in 2009! This is not so common in the majority of the technical textbooks. One chapter I already read is the one about environmental diseases and the impact of world climate change in human diseases. Although the book is excellent I had at least 2 problems with the Amazon purchase. One was about the shipping, they said it was 48h maximum time, but after my credit card was charged I received an email saying that it was submitted to studentconsult and it would take 21 business days...): The second problem was the accessibility to the student consult website to access my book and study online. The key provided in the book did not work in the beginning and trying to contact the customer support by e-mail was driving me crazy, because the attenders were not well prepared. It took me weeks so that I could start to see the contents online. Not their fault, of course, but a manager's logistic problem. They should prepare their staff better. It sounds like many other institutions where the consumer is important only until he pays and what happens afterwards, it's the consumer problem!
A big bookNovember 18, 2009 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Robbins and Cotran's book is quite dense, and goes into more detail than may be necessary in the preclinical years. By the same token, it paints a clear and comprehensive picture of each pathology, so that reading it would leave any student with a great command in each topic for the boards. Blue boxes with key morphological findings concisely illuminate the pathology's major findings. As pathology ties together most of the other preclinical areas of study, this book probably deserves a place in each student's armamentarium.
Pages were missing!November 13, 2009 Lindsay Jackson 0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book content itself is fine...but there are 13 pages missing from the index! So when I went to look up a term as I was studying, I was suprised to find that the book was missing 13 pages - indeces R through T. For $95, I would expect that all of the pages be in the book!
AwesomeNovember 2, 2009 Joao Paulo O. Costa(Ribeirao Preto, SP Brazil) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the most important book about pathology ever released. And this new version is full of news. The most recent research fields about all the systems are now updated, and with new chapters, and photographs. Is worthfull for every student of health sciences.
Awesome!
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