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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Philadelphia?] :
Saunders/Elsevier,
2007.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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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