Histology: A Text and Atlas [Paperback]

Michael H Ross (Author), Gordon I Kaye (Author), Wojciech Pawlina (Author), Michael H. Ross (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0683302426 | ISBN-13: 978-0683302424 | Publication Date: October 15, 2002 | Edition: 4th

This updated Fourth Edition best-selling text and atlas is refined in several ways. Many chapters are completely revised, and nearly half of the photographs are new. There are approximately 189 atlas plates, and over 70 new illustrations. Textboxes read as "Clinical Correlation" or "Functional Correlation", and in the text, emphasis is placed on functional integration with increased coverage of cell and molecular biology. The sentence heading and four-color art have been retained from the previous edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 875 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 4th edition (October 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0683302426
• ISBN-13: 978-0683302424
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #845,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Histo Text for Medical Students, May 11, 2000

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Michael Johnson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Histology: A Text and Atlas (Paperback)

This book doesn't assume that you have an extensive background. The first year medical student who was a liberal arts major can read through this book once and know histology as good (or better) than a student with a master's degree in anatomy! The chapters flow very logically, allowing the reader to make the all-important integration of various regions of the body and the processes/histology associated with them. Furthermore, every page has photomicrographs and/or drawings which allow the reader to have not only a more complete understanding of the material, but a clinically useful knowledge of the proper appearance of tissues. This book leaves nothing out and is, at least at the medical school I attend, unanimously agreed to be the best histo book available.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Text, Poor Atlas, December 8, 2000

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Brian Herring (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Histology: A Text and Atlas (Paperback)

This book was one of two required for a graduate course in Histology. If you must take a Histology course in graduate school or medical school, I would recommend purchasing a separtate atlas, especially if you are a novice or have limited availability to quality slides. I personally recommend diFiore because it has multiple atlas plates for each tissue with different magnifications and stains. It is also reasonably priced. The text in Ross is very well written and presents the material in a compact, to the point style. This allows the student to learn the material without searching for what is and is not important.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Text, Needs more diagrams, June 27, 2004

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anandkumar (Coimbatore,India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Histology: A Text and Atlas (Paperback)

This is a good histology text to read and understand. It has not only structural descriptions, but has related physiology and this makes the book interesting to read. With mastering histology in the first year of the medical school, pathology would be easy to learn in the future. This book makes histology a more interesting subject.
Advantages:
1.Lucid style in writing
2.Sentence type headings makes the essence of the following text very clear.
3.Most of the details that you need in the histology course could be found in this single volume.
4.Atlas is separately included in the end of every chapter other than the regular diagrams between the texts.
Disadvantages:
1.Lack of line diagrams- without a good number of line diagrams it would be difficult to grasp the material for a normal student like me.
2.No clear chapter outline in the beginning of each chapter. The Wheater's histology has an edge over this in this aspect.