The Alchemy of Lesions: Decoding Disease and Orchestrating Resolution

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Authors

Birupaksha Biswas (ed)
Department of Pathology, Burdwan Medical College & Hospital, Burdwan, India
Suhena Sarkar (ed)
Department of Pharmacology Medical College Kolkata, India
Shilpa Basu Roy (ed)
Department of Cadio Thoracic Vacular Surgery, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, India
Subesha Basu Roy (ed)
Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, India

Keywords:

Diabetic Nephropathy, VEGF-A/VEGFR-2 Signaling , Stem Cell Therapy , Diabetic Foot Ulcers , Lung Carcinoma , Lobectomy , Immunotherapy

Synopsis

In the labyrinthine theatre of human affliction, the lesion emerges simultaneously as cipher and proclamation,an encrypted testament inscribed upon the tissues by the perturbations of disordered physiology, awaiting both the interpretive acuity of diagnostic discernment and the transformative agency of therapeutic intervention. The Alchemy of Lesions: Decoding Disease and Orchestrating Resolution aspires to transcend the artificially imposed demarcations that have too long separated pathology from pharmacology, instead weaving them into a unified epistemological tapestry wherein morphological decipherment and pharmacodynamic precision converge.

This volume has not been conceived as a mere aggregation of facts, nor as a sterile catalogue of clinical minutiae; rather, it is envisioned as an intellectual crucible, a hermeneutic furnace in which the unrefined ore of clinical observation is subjected to the alembic of rigorous analysis and thereby transmuted into the gold of integrative understanding and curative strategy. Through the prisms of histopathological morphology, molecular pathobiology, and the vast and ever-expanding pharmacological armamentarium, the reader is invited to traverse a continuum that stretches from the most subtle recognition of disease inception to the deliberate orchestration of its therapeutic undoing.

It is the hope of this work that it may serve as both scaffold and spur,on the one hand a scholastic architecture upon which the contemporary practitioner may anchor knowledge, and on the other a catalytic provocation for the generation of clinician-scientists yet to come, who will discern in every lesion not merely the bleak signature of morbidity but also a liminal gateway to resolution, restoration, and renewal.

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Published

13 August 2025

Details about the available publication format: E-Book

E-Book

ISBN-13 (15)

978-93-7185-865-6

Details about the available publication format: Book (Paperback)

Book (Paperback)

ISBN-13 (15)

978-93-7185-125-1

How to Cite

Biswas, B. ., Sarkar, S. ., Roy, S. B. ., & Roy, S. B. . (Eds.). (2025). The Alchemy of Lesions: Decoding Disease and Orchestrating Resolution. Deep Science Publishing. https://doi.org/10.70593/978-93-7185-865-6