Muscle biopsy : a practical approach /

In this book, Professor Victor Dubowitz manages to bridge the gap between clinical syndromes/disorders and their underlying pathologies. An internationally renowned figure in the field of muscle disease, Professor Dubowitz skillfully guides you through the complexities of pathologic diagnoses and th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dubowitz, Victor
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Sewry, Caroline A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Philadelphia?] : Saunders/Elsevier, 2007.
Edition:3rd ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. biopsy : normal and diseased muscle
  • 1. procedure of muscle biopsy
  • 2. Histological and histochemical stains and reactions
  • 3. Normal muscle
  • 4. Definition of pathological changes seen in muscle biopsies
  • 5. Ultrastructural changes in diseased muscle
  • 6. Immunohistochemistry
  • 7. How to read a biopsy
  • Sect. 2. Pathological muscle : individual diseases
  • 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
  • 13. Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders IV : Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophies and Bethlem myopathy
  • 14. Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders V : facioscapulohumeral, myotonic and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
  • 15. Congenital myopathies
  • 16. Myofibrillar myopathies
  • 17. Metabolic myopathies I : glycogenoses
  • 18. Metabolic myopathies II : lipid related disorders and mitochondrial myopathies
  • 19. Endocrine disorders
  • 20. Ion channel disorders
  • 21. Myasthenic syndromes
  • 22. Inflammatory myopathies
  • 23. Toxic and drug-induced