Wheater's Basic Histopathology: A Color Atlas and Text

by Alan Stevens, James S. Lowe, Barbara Young

This best selling atlas and text of histopathology provides a practical collection of color photomicrographs of diseased human tissue to supplement standard pathology texts. An ideal companion to the renowned Wheater's Functional Histology, this new edition gives more emphasis to the scientific basis of disease and clinicopathological correlations.An unsurpassed collection of photomicrographs of diseased tissues makes the book more accessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443070016
• ISBN13: 9780443070013
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

life saver

This book is what saved my life in the pathology, microbiology and immunology course at my med school. The book put all the histopathology which was very dense and made unnecessarily complicated by the lecturers and the Robbins PBOD book in a very logical way. It has great micrographs with thorough text accompanying them and is a must have.

An excellent primer of pathology

If you agree that seeing is believing, then this book is for you. Microscopic images with accompanying texts illustrate important concepts and salient features of common diseases. The language is clear and facts are presented concisely. I particularly loved the part on general pathology : it contains one of the most beautifully written summaries of the recurring themes in pathology...i.e. cell injury, necrosis, adative response, neoplasia, inflammation, thrombosis etc. Read, re-read and re-read the first few chapters of this book, so that those concepts get stuck in your brain. Once that's mastered, you'll have little difficulty facing systems pathology.Unfortuantely, no book is perfect... this one has no gross/macro pictures, and the texts while perfectly summarised, are not enough to get you thru the boards or other path exams. If you're looking for uncommon or esoteric stuff, search elsewhere. Nevertheless, I would call this the perfect primer of pathology, and an essential companion to the bigger textbooks.Buy it if you really want to UNDERSTAND and APPRECIATE pathology.