BASIC PATHOLOGY
,Robbins
BASIC
PATHOLOGY
TENTH EDITION
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
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
ARTIST James A. Perkins, MS, MFA
, 1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2899
ROBBINS BASIC PATHOLOGY, TENTH EDITION ISBN: 978-0-323-35317-5
International Edition: 978-0-323-48054-3
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kumar, Vinay, 1944- editor. | Abbas, Abul K., editor. | Aster, Jon C.,
editor. | Perkins, James A., illustrator.
Title: Robbins basic pathology / [edited by] Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas,
Jon C. Aster ; artist, James A. Perkins.
Other titles: Basic pathology
Description: Tenth edition. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Elsevier, [2018]
| Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017002902 | ISBN 9780323353175 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: | MESH: Pathologic Processes
Classification: LCC RB111 | NLM QZ 140 | DDC 616.07–dc23 LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002902
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