Lecture Notes

  • Lecture Notes: Oncology
    By Mark Bower, Jonathan Waxman

    placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) 233 plastic surgery 47 pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma 227 pleural effusions 258–9 causes 262 Plummer–Vinson syndrome 104 polymyositis 251 polyploid, definition 9 positron emission tomography (PET) ...

  • Lecture Notes: Immunology
    By Ian Todd, Gavin Spickett, Lucy Fairclough

    ... basophils cooperative action cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity cytokine secretion triggering of B-cell hybridoma B-1 cells and B-2 cells belatacept Bence Jones protein Berger's disease biphasic reaction blood transfusion, ...

  • Lecture Notes: Medical Microbiology and Infection
    By Tom Elliott, Anna Casey, Peter A. Lambert

    Medical Microbiology and Infection Lecture Notes is ideal for medical students, junior doctors, pharmacy students, junior pharmacists, nurses, and those training in the allied health professions.

  • Lecture Notes: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
    By Richard Reid

    This book provides the reader with all the necessary information to achieve a thorough understanding of how drugs work, their interaction with the body in health and disease, and how to use these drugs appropriately in clinical situations.

  • Lecture Notes: Dermatology
    By Robin Graham-Brown, Karen Harman, Graham Johnston

    Acquired Melanocytic Naevus Sutton's halo naevus: a white ring develops around an otherwise typical melanocytic naevus; the lesion may become paler and disappear (Figure 11.5). This is an immune response of no sinister significance and ...

  • Lecture Notes: Oncology
    By Mark Bower, Jonathan Waxman

    Although cancer is generally not an infectious disease, some animal leukaemias, lymphomas and solid tumours, particularly sarcomas, can be caused by viruses. Oncogenes were identified following the discovery by Peyton Rous in 1911 that ...

  • Lecture Notes: Oncology
    By Mark Bower, Jonathan Waxman

    ... characteristics of cancers ✓ Classify the epigenetic changes that contribute to cancers ✓ Explain the hereditary and environmental causes of cancers with Oncology: Lecture Notes, Third Edition. Mark Bower and Jonathan Waxman.

  • Lecture Notes: Dermatology
    By Robin Graham-Brown, Tony Burns

    Presented in a user-friendly format, combining readability with high quality illustrations, this tenth edition has been revised to reflect recent advances in knowledge of skin diseases and developments in therapy, and features a brand new ...

  • Lecture Notes: Dermatology
    By Robin Graham-Brown, Tony Burns

    This new edition: Contains new case studies and self-assessment (MCQs) Is lavishly illustrated and contains high quality clinical photographs Includes more on systemic diseases leading to skin disorders Provides further information ...

  • Lecture Notes: Epidemiology, Evidence-based Medicine and Public Health
    By Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sara Brookes, Matthew Hickman

    Blackwell's publishing programhas been merged with Wiley's global Scientific, Technical and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered office: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, ...

  • Lecture Notes: Immunology
    By Ian Todd, Gavin Spickett, Lucy Fairclough

    Histologically, it is characterized by the presence of large multinucleate cells of irregular shape known as Reed–Sternberg cells, which are surrounded by a mixed cellular infiltrate consisting of T and B lymphocytes, macrophages, ...

  • Lecture Notes: Psychiatry
    By Michael Sharpe, Paul J. Harrison, Harrison

    Lecture Notes: Psychiatry

  • Lecture Notes: General Surgery
    By Harold Ellis, Sir Roy Calne, Sir Christopher Watson

    3 Sir William Osler (1849–1919), Professor of Medicine, successively at McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; and the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Henri Rendu (1844–1902), Physician, ...

  • Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine
    By Geoff V. Gill, Nick Beeching

    Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine is a comprehensive introduction to tropical medicine. The new edition is in full colour throughout with over 40 colour images integrated with the text.

  • Lecture Notes: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
    By Gerard A. McKay, John L. Reid, Matthew R. Walters

    Presented in an easy-to-use format, this eighth edition builds on the clinical relevance for which the title has become well-known, and features an up to date review of drug use across all major clinical disciplines together with an ...

  • Lecture Notes: Tropical Medicine
    By Geoff V. Gill, Nick Beeching

    Food-borne trematodes include liver, lung and intestinal flukes. One-fifth of the world's population is at risk from these infections, which are endemic in at least 100 countries, half of which are among the poorest in the world.

  • Lecture Notes: Gastroenterology and Hepatology
    By Anton Emmanuel, Stephen Inns

    Key features include: A full range of new illustrations, including clinical photographs and scans, that clearly demonstrate signs and symptoms Sections on anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and epidemiology written to enhance understanding ...

  • Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry
    By Peter Rae, Geoffrey Beckett, Simon W. Walker

    The new edition of the best-selling Lecture Notes title is a concise introduction to clinical biochemistry that presents the fundamental science underpinning common biochemical investigations used in clinical practice.

  • Lecture Notes: Medical Microbiology and Infection
    By Tom Elliott, Anna Casey, Peter A. Lambert

    Medical Microbiology and Infection Lecture Notes is ideal for medical students, junior doctors, pharmacy students, junior pharmacists, nurses, and those training in the allied health professions.

  • Lecture Notes: Psychiatry
    By Gautam Gulati, Mary-Ellen Lynall, Kate E. A. Saunders

    'Legal highs' A recently growing problem is the availability of designer drugs on the open market; the regulation of these is ... FURTHER READING Health Development Agency (2002) Manual for the Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST).