Small Animal Dermatology - E-Book
A Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide
- 652 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Small Animal Dermatology - E-Book
A Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide
About this book
**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Medicine** Streamlined for practical, everyday use in the clinic, Small Animal Dermatology: A Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide, 4th Edition provides concise, thorough information on more than 250 skin diseases affecting small animals. More than 1, 400 high-quality images help to ensure accurate diagnoses, with coverage including recognizable clinical signs, top differentials, diagnostic tests, treatment recommendations, and prognosis for each disorder. The differential diagnosis chapter adds clarity to the difficult task busy students and practitioners face every day – identifying what dermatologic condition is causing a dog, cat, or exotic animal to suffer. Chapters list diseases based upon the frequency of their occurrence in the pet population, and detailed procedures include helpful illustrations of key techniques.- Well-organized, concise, yet comprehensive, coverage of over 250 skin diseases in dogs, cats, birds, and exotic pets like rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chinchillas, turtles, snakes, and lizards allows for quick and easy reference.- Comprehensive drug appendices highlight information about dosage, adverse reactions, indications, and contraindications for antimicrobial, antiseborrheic, and antipruritic shampoo therapy, topical, otic, and systemic therapeutic drugs.- Detailed procedures include helpful illustrations of key techniques.- Thoroughly covers each disorder with recognizable clinical signs, top differentials, diagnostic tests, treatment recommendations, and prognoses.- More than 1, 450 vivid, full-color images in atlas format clearly demonstrate clinical appearance of skin lesions to facilitate accurate diagnosis and treatment.- An atlas of before- and after-treatment images provides you with a compelling client communication tool to promote treatment acceptance and compliance.- Emphasizes important information on the continuing emergence of zoonotic skin diseases in each chapter.
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Author Photos
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Differential Diagnoses
- 2 Diagnostic Techniques
- 3 Bacterial Skin Diseases
- 4 Fungal Skin Diseases
- 5 Parasitic Skin Disorders
- 6 Viral, Rickettsial, and Protozoal Skin Diseases
- 7 Hypersensitivity Disorders
- 8 Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Skin Disorders
- 9 Hereditary, Congenital, and Acquired Alopecias
- 10 Congenital Diseases
- 11 Pigmentary Abnormalities
- 12 Keratinization and Seborrheic Disorders
- 13 Diseases of Eyes, Claws, Anal Sacs, and Ear Canals
- 14 Neoplastic and Nonneoplastic Tumors
- 15 Avian and Exotic Animal Dermatology
- 16 Pretreatment and Posttreatment Response Images
- Appendix A Antimicrobial, Antiseborrheic, and Antipruritic Shampoo Therapy
- Appendix B Systemic Therapeutic Drugs “(Because medical knowledge changes rapidly, readers are encouraged to review current literature, product label, and the manufacturer's disclosure for recommended dosage recommendations and information regarding product availability.)”
- Index