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Muscle biopsy : a practical approach /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dubowitz, Victor (Author), Oldfors, Anders (Author), Sewry, Caroline A. (Author)
Corporate Author: Elsevier Science (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [London?] : Elsevier, [2021]
Edition:Fifth edition.
Subjects:
Muscles > Biopsy.
Muscles > Diseases > Diagnosis.
Muscular Diseases > pathology.
Biopsy.
Muscles > pathology.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • The procedure of muscle biopsy
  • Histological and histochemical stains and reactions
  • Normal muscle
  • Histological and histochemical changes
  • Ultrastructural changes
  • Immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting
  • How to read a biopsy
  • Classification of neuromuscular disorders
  • Neurogenic disorders
  • Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders I : Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy
  • Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders II: limb-girdle muscular dystrophies
  • Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders III: congenital muscular dystrophies and associated disorders
  • Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders IV: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and similar syndromes
  • Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders V: facioscapulohumeral, myotonic and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophies
  • Congenital myopathies and related disorders
  • Myofibrillar myopathies and other myopathies with rimmed vacuoles
  • Metabolic myopathies I: glycogenoses
  • Metabolic myopathies II: lipid-related disorders and mitochondrial myopathies
  • Myopathies associated with systemic disorders and ageing
  • Ion channel disorders
  • Myasthenic syndromes
  • Inflammatory myopathies
  • Toxic and drug-induced myopathies
  • Appendices. Glossary of genetic terms
  • Useful websites.