Robbins Basic Pathology

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Summary: Concise, fluent, and up-to-date.
Review: Baby Robbins is the final authority in second-year pathology. Clinical features are highlighted, and organization is straight forward. I skip class and depend solely on this text sometimes.

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Summary: A classic and organised textbook which need more updateING
Review: Robbins pathology is a classic textbook for medicine. 7.edition is very attractive with funny illustrations. Saunders quality seems obviously. But Robbins couldn't solve that problem: It is becoming looser and looser... Rates, incidences are not satisfactory... It tends to escape from details,but sometimes it makes this classic book simple... Clinics are not updated enough. There are many misscarriages... For example rutin thyroid scintigraphy uses Tc99m pertechnate, not radioiodine... Little doses of it may cause permenant hypothyroidism. And osteomalasia/osteoporosis. Now,we now that: Only 1-2 h/week UV to face and forearms is enough to synthesize essentiall amounts of vitamin D. So wears (veils etc) are not important as the cause of vit. D deficiency. It is not realistic and new datas showed these kind of comments are all defective. Race and geographic position is the important factors ( As written in an other classic: Harrisons...). Of course these are not interesting details for someone, a pathology book maynot talk about them, if it does, it must true. I hope 8. edition will become stronger... Cost of price... Thanks for editors. Essentiall for USMLE, with BRS pathology...

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Summary: A useful review of basic pathology
Review: The 7th addition of Robbins Basic pathology is several hundred pages shorter than the previous edition. Most of what was removed was basic physiology and anatomy review. I found that while it's good to have a shorter textbook, the loss of these subjects made for less interesting reading. The 7th edition also adds quite a bit more molecular biology and molecular genetics, reflecting chnages in the study of pathology. Overall, it's an excellent pathology review book and will be very useful for medical students and path residents who want to review. The main flaw of the book is an unavoidable one. Many important areas of pathology are covered in a single paragraph and much detail is lacking. However, the authors had to do this to keep the book relatively short (only 700 pages). I recomment this book highly as a good way to begin studying pathology.

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Summary: easy to understand
Review: the new 6th edition of Kumar`s(et al)Pathology text book is much improved. It is more concise, easy to understand, and the excellent diagrams make life, for the beleaguered medical student,a lot easier. Having read Underwood as well, I would much rather recommend this book as an indepth yet more approachable option

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Summary: Explicative, Complete and Easy to Understand
Review: This book makes the compilation of the main concepts of medical pathology that every medical student or physician must know for an optimal practice.... the figures and tables makes understanding a lot easier and faster..... it's a jewel in pathology books!

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Summary: Clean, easy and complete!
Review: This edition of Basic Pathology is a very good book for Medicine students, because it is as complete as necessary for a graduation course, and this book's easy language and beautiful diagrams, pictures and tables makes Pathology easier to understand.

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Summary: A great review for AP boards
Review: This text is very concise compared with Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. Both are excellent, but this "smaller" book actually has everything you need for the general pathology part of the written AP boards. I am specifically referring to chapters 1-9 with 10 and 11. It needs to be read with near total comprehension, but the color graphics are excellent aids. All other systemic pathology topics should be covered in a surgical pathology text, of course.

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Summary: A quick view of a potentially outdated book?
Review: Using Robbins Pathology, 5th Edition, I came to the conclusion that it is nice to know so much about the subject, but it can be summarized in a much smaller format. At the AMC in Amsterdam (NL) we changed the material three times in the last three years, starting with Hoedemaeker, then changing to Robbins. This book is three times as big as the first one and costs almost twenty dollars more. With the last change we came to Underwood. Cheaper and easier to use, I recommend this book to all medical students over Robbins. The latest edition however, may have changed a lot . I therefore recommend everyone using the fifth edition to change and update! SMS