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Preeminent pathology practitioner, author, and instructor Ivan Damjanov, MD, PhD skillfully provides you with the rich understanding of disease mechanisms you need to succeed on the USMLE and beyond.
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No matter which area in the healthcare field you may enter, this book provides essential preparation for conditions encountered in clinical practice.
Equally important, the solid foundation of applied pathophysiological mechanisms offered in this text prepares the student clinician to care for patients with a broad variety of disorders.
DISEASE Named after James Parkinson, the English physician who wrote the first accurate description of the disease in 1817, Parkinson's disease (PD) (also known as shaking palsy) characteristically produces progressive muscle rigidity, ...
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