Underwood's Pathology: A Clinical Approach

A thorough understanding of pathology is crucial for doctors and a foundation for safe and effective clinical practice. This internationally renowned, award-winning textbook provides a comprehensive overview, aligned to the needs of current medical students and early career stage doctors.

The book starts with a clear introduction to the basic principles of pathology, then moves on to more detailed discussion of disease mechanisms and the pathology of specific disorders ordered by body system. The text has been fully updated for this eighth edition and optimized for efficient study.

Complete with unrivalled photographs, images, graphics and supplementary electronic materials, Underwood’s Pathology is the complete learning package no medical student should be without.

New to this edition

• Fully revised throughout
• New sections on the pathology of Covid-19 in all relevant sections
• Extensive revision of the molecular pathology of tumours

Key Features

• Comprehensive but concise and understandable for medical students - also suitable for junior doctors, early career pathologists/histopathologists, dental students and biomedical scientists
• Ideal for integrated, systems-based courses and problem-based learning – reflects modern medical curricula
• Structure makes content highly accessible – easy to look up any pathology seen in the classroom or on the wards
• Presents pathology in the context of modern cellular and molecular biology and contemporary clinical practice
• Unrivalled collection of nearly 700 clinical photographs, histopathology images and graphics
• Includes a full patient symptoms index plus multiple quick-reference summary tables
• Prepared by leading pathology experts and educators – for coverage you can trust
• A complete eBook with BONUS electronic materials further supports and enhances the learning experience

1. What is pathology?
James Underwood
2. What is disease?
James Underwood
3. What causes disease?
James Underwood and Simon S. Cross
4. Disorders of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis
Jonathan Bury and Jon Griffin
5. Responses to cellular injury
Jonathan Bury and Jon Griffin
6. Disorders of metabolism and homeostasis
Stephen R. Morley
7. Ischaemia, infarction and shock
Simon S. Cross
8. Immunology and immunopathology
Carrock Sewell
9. Inflammation
Nidhi Tandon
10. Neoplasia and carcinogenesis
Mark Johan Arends
11. Ageing and death
Emyr Wyn Benbow
12. How do pathologists help patient care?
Patricia Virginia Vergani
13. Cardiovascular system
Kirsty Louise Lloyd and Eu-wing Toh
14. Respiratory system
Alexandra Rice
15. Alimentary system
Heike I. Grabsch
16. Liver, biliary system and exocrine pancreas
Beate Haugk, Alyn Louise Cratchley and Olorunda Rotimi
17. Endocrine system
Fawzia Tahir
18. Breast
Janet L. Jones
19. Female genital tract
Sanjiv Manek
20. Urinary and male genital tracts
Daniel M. Berney
21. Kidney diseases
Ian S. D Roberts
22. Lymph nodes and extranodal lymphoid tissue, spleen and thymus
Syed Mohammed Hasan Rizvi
23. Blood and bone marrow
Henry Watson and Dominic Culligan
24. Skin
Colin Moyes and Grant Wylie
25. Osteoarticular and connective tissues
David Hughes
26. Central and peripheral nervous systems
Colin Smith

Author Information

Edited by Simon S. Cross, MD FRCPath, Professor of Diagnostic Histopathology and Honorary Consultant, Histopathologist, Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health, The University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, UK.

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