<p>2014 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Pathology category! </p> <p>Muscle Biopsy: A Practical Approach gives you all of the unparalleled guidance necessary to effectively interpret and diagnose muscle biopsy specimens for the full range of diseases in both adults and children. Authored
Muscle Biopsy: A Practical Approach
β Scribed by Victor Dubowitz, Caroline A. Sewry, Anders Oldfors
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 526
- Edition
- 5
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
For more than 45 years, Muscle Biopsy: A Practical Approach has offered, comprehensive, clinically-focused coverage of the acquisition, interpretation, and assessment of muscle biopsies β an area often only lightly covered in pathology texts. Taking an integrated approach that includes clinical, genetic, biochemical, and pathological features, the 5th Edition covers the full range of muscle disease in both adults and children. This highly illustrated, easy-to-use volume helps you navigate this challenging area, bridging the gap between clinical syndromes/disorders and their underlying pathologies.
Fully updated 5th edition of this internationally acclaimed classic in muscle pathology.
Written by internationally recognized world leaders in the field of muscle pathology.
Comprehensive coverage of histology, histochemistry, immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy in parallel with clinical and genetic advances.
Lavishly illustrated with over 600 full colour images.
Fully updated literature review.
Comprehensive update on the rapidly expanding field of neuromuscular disorders.
4th edition Highly Commended in Pathology category of the prestigious 2014 BMA Medical Book Awards.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
Muscle Biopsy: A PRACTICAL APPROACH
Copyright
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Gene Symbols
1. The Procedure of Muscle Biopsy
The Evolving Role of Muscle Pathology
2. Histological and Histochemical Stains and Reactions
3. Normal Muscle
4. Histological and Histochemical Changes
5. Ultrastructural Changes
6. Immunohistochemistry and Immunoblotting
7. How to Read a Biopsy
8. Classification of Neuromuscular Disorders
9. Neurogenic Disorders
10. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders I: Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
11. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders II: Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
12. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders III: Congenital Muscular Dystrophies and Associated Disorders
13. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders IV: EmeryβDreifuss Muscular Dystrophy and Similar Syndromes
14. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders V: Facioscapulohumeral, Myotonic and Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophies
15. Congenital Myopathies and Related Disorders
16. Myofibrillar Myopathies and Other Myopathies with Rimmed Vacuoles
17. Metabolic Myopathies I: Glycogenoses
18. Metabolic Myopathies II: Lipid-Related Disorders and Mitochondrial Myopathies
19. Myopathies Associated with Systemic Disorders and Ageing
20. Ion Channel Disorders
21. Myasthenic Syndromes
22. Inflammatory Myopathies
23. Toxic and Drug-Induced Myopathies
Appendix 1. Glossary of Genetic Terms
2 - Useful Websites
β¦ Subjects
Muscle Biopsy; Pathology; Muscle Diseases; Neurology
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