Basic Histology (Paperback)

~ Luiz Carlos Junqueira (Author), Jose Carneiro (Author), Robert O Kelley (Author)

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"The book is written mainly for students in professional schools but it would be useful as a reference for many undergraduate courses that touch on the subject. The authors are knowledgeable in the field, having published the first nine editions of this book." "book has been useful and popular. " (Doody's ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

This new edition provides detailed descriptions of the function and specialization of the four tissue groups. Chapters are devoted to each organ and organ system.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 494 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co; 9th edition (September 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838505902
• ISBN-13: 978-0838505908
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,378,141 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the text to use for intro Histology, November 27, 1999

By	Jason B. "jbmd2004" (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews

I bought this book because it was on the textbook list for my histology course in med school but was extremely disappointed with it's content. Having had histology as an undergrad in university, I really didn't feel this book makes it easy for the beginner to learn histology (especially since the photomicrographs are not in colour). Many of my classmates used Ross et al. "A Text and Atlas of Histology." Basic Histology may be good for a reference text, but not an intro Histo textbook. I could not in good conscience recommend this text for first year med students or for someone just taking histo for the first time.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Id give it a 0/10, March 18, 2005

By	A. Shankar "blue ego" (NSW Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Basic Histology: Text & Atlas, 10th Edition (Paperback)

This book was a prescribed text that I had to buy when I was doing elementary histology. It had far too little information for that yet alone anything of greater depth.

The book is superficially thick, with hardly any proper organization it just seems pedantic and thats what it is, without any substance however.

For instance when it speaks of the liver it doesnt go into any detail about the lobulation of the liver; it draws allusions as to how the liver can replace the spleen in erythrocyte filtration but doesnt go into further depth.

It doesnt tabulate (as most texts should and do) the comparative contractile mechanisms of the three muscle types.

Nor does it go into any proper depth on the ramifications of purkenje fibers to the contraction of cardiac muscle or how it differs from skeletal contraction.

It fails to recognize and mention characteristic landmarks on histological tissue i.e. Hassall's corpuscles in the thymus which is a dead give away to a failing histological text.

It wastes a lot of paper with chapter after chapter references, I mean you dont buy a textbook to just get more references to other texts, its not a directory that we are looking for now are we.

The chapter on the lymphatics and smooth muscle contraction are two things that I would accredit this book for having a done a good job on.

There are several other histology texts that you should consider prior to this, please do yourself a favour and DONT get this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For a medical student, not a bad book., May 18, 2006

By	Ocular/Orbital Surgeon (USA) - See all my reviews

One's opinion on this book depends your purpose. This is not a comprehensive histology text, nor is it an atlas of histology. Graduate students in anatomy or histology will be disappointed.

BUT, for a medical student this book used in conjunction with an atlas is pretty good. The book reads well, has "ok" pictures, and sufficient detail for medical school histology courses. I found this book used with the DiFore's histology atlas to be sufficient. I preferred this over Wheater's book, but others in my class did use the Wheater book.

Overall, I would recommend this book to be used along with a histology atlas such as DiFore, for medical school histology.

Histology is barely present on USMLE, so don't waste your time buying this book for board review unless you just can't remember anything from histology.