FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS - Third course

Preface

Dear 3rd and 4th year medical students, we have prepare for you “Lecture course in
Clinical Pathology”. You have motivated us to give you a more comprehensive, useful and
practical approach to the topics in the syllabus, which you have to learn for your exam in
Pathology. Your interest in our subject has raised the requirements and standards we have
to meet. This is why we have prepared this manual in order to give you an accessible and
organized information on our subject.
Clinical pathology is a key step into clinical medicine. It lays the foundations of the basic
pathological process that can occur in the human body. We hope that we will effectively
help you in your studies with the information given in these notes.
Every topic in your syllabus for the exam in Clinical Pathology is discussed here in a
report form. Please, do use the references given for each topic in order to complete the information
you need to know for the exam.
We will appreciate any feedback from you, since we would like to improve our work
and be as useful as possible to you, the students who will use this book.
We wish you pleasant reading!

Assoc. Prof. Elena Poryazova-Markova, MD, PhD
Department of General and Clinical Pathology
and Forensic Medicine
MU - Plovdiv