Pathology
Surgical Pathology
Mechanism-first surgical pathology: inflammation and repair, thrombosis and the tumour biology needed to understand operative disease rather than memorise labels.
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Acute Inflammation
A mechanism-first MRCS lesson on acute inflammation: vascular events, leukocyte recruitment, key mediators, phagocytosis and clinical outcomes.
Read lessonWound Healing & Scarring
MRCS wound-healing lesson covering haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, remodelling, collagen, growth factors, delayed healing and hypertrophic versus keloid scars.
Read lessonNeoplasia: Definitions & Classification
Clarify neoplasia, dysplasia, benign and malignant behaviour, then classify tumours by tissue of origin without relying on unreliable suffix rules.
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Inflammation & repair
Follow tissue injury from acute cellular recruitment through persistent inflammation and repair.
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Acute Inflammation
A mechanism-first MRCS lesson on acute inflammation: vascular events, leukocyte recruitment, key mediators, phagocytosis and clinical outcomes.
10 min readActive recall - Read lesson
Chronic Inflammation & Granulomas
Learn the cellular pattern and consequences of chronic inflammation, then understand granulomas as a reaction pattern rather than a diagnosis.
9 min readActive recall - Read lesson
Wound Healing & Scarring
MRCS wound-healing lesson covering haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, remodelling, collagen, growth factors, delayed healing and hypertrophic versus keloid scars.
14 min readActive recall
Thrombosis & vascular pathology
Use Virchow’s triad and thrombus fate to connect physiology with surgical thromboembolic disease.
Neoplasia & cancer behaviour
Start with terminology, then mechanisms of malignant evolution and finally grade versus stage.
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Neoplasia: Definitions & Classification
Clarify neoplasia, dysplasia, benign and malignant behaviour, then classify tumours by tissue of origin without relying on unreliable suffix rules.
9 min readActive recall - Read lesson
Carcinogenesis, Invasion & Metastatic Spread
A mechanism-based cancer pathology lesson covering oncogenes, tumour suppressors, clonal evolution, local invasion and the metastatic cascade.
11 min readActive recall - Read lesson
Tumour Grading vs Staging & TNM
Separate grade from stage, understand cTNM and pTNM, and use TNM without assuming one organ’s rules apply to another.
10 min readActive recall
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