This book is a course designed to introduce the basic facts that a pathologist should know and use in practical work. The chapters are structured by organs and contain information about obtaining material, a description of the most common diagnoses, possible errors, practical advice, differential diagnosis and basic requirements for making a diagnosis. The goal of this material was to be able to read any chapter in 20 minutes, covering the key points of the topic.

The concept for this book was born in the course of a 2-year experiment conducted at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. At each lesson, the interns received practical tasks and about 20 micropreparations with the most common pathological processes in a particular organ. This book is a compilation of this course, complete with illustrations. In the interests of brevity and clarity of presentation, the authors have deliberately avoided some highly specialized questions in individual topics. One of the goals of this book is to provide the physician with factual knowledge. In it you can find information that is more or less considered well-known, and therefore they are almost never taught.

For pathologists, as well as residents specializing in this field.