2019

2 credit hour

Three instuctors: Dr Heyam Awad, Dr Mousa Abbadi and Dr Manar Hajeer

Robbins basic pathology Tenth edition

Web Path Internet teaching http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/EXAM/MULTGEN/examidx.htm

lecture topic lecturer

5 Cell injury Dr manar

6 inflammation Dr mousa

3 repair Dr mousa

11 neoplasia Dr heyam

Midterm exam… .. 40 marks

Final exam……50 marks

Attendance… 10 marks

E-mail: M.hajeer83@hotmail.com

Office: third floor , clinics building, JUH

The study (logos) of suffering or disease (pathos).

The study of the structural, biochemical, and functional changes in cells, tissues, and organs that are involved by disease.

A bridge between the basic sciences and clinical medicine.

Uses molecular, microbiologic, immunologic, and morphologic techniques trying to reach a diagnosis and explanation.

General pathology: Cell injury, inflammation and repair, hemodynamic disorders, genetic disorders, immune system diseases, infectious disease and environmental diseases.

Systemic pathology: alterations in specialized organs and tissues in diseased status.

Epidemiological aspects

Etiology/ cause:

I. Genetic: mutations

II. Acquired: infectious, nutritional, chemical..

Pathogenesis: sequence of events in the response of cells or tissues to the etiologic agent, from the initial stimulus to the ultimate expression of the disease. (mechanism).

Molecular changes.

Morphologic changes: macroscopic versus microscopic.

Clinical features including biochemical tests, physical findings, radiological findings

Complications

Treatment

Prognosis

Anatomical/ surgical pathology or histopathology: Gross examination and microscopic examination to reach a diagnosis.

Clinical pathology: hematology, microbiology, immunology and biochemistry.

Histopathology.

Cytopathology.

Autopsy.

Subspecialties: neuropathology, dermatopathology, oral pathology……

Biopsies: excisional and incisional.

Smears: exfoliative and fine needle aspiration.