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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 by Dr. Victor Dubowitz, an internationally renowned figure in the field of muscl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dubowitz, Victor
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Sewry, Caroline A., Oldfors, Anders, Lane, Russell J. M., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Saunders Elsevier, 2013.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Series:ClinicalKey.
Subjects:
Muscles > Biopsy.
Muscles > Diseases > Diagnosis.
Biopsy.
Biopsy
Muscular Diseases > pathology
Muscles > pathology
Muscles > Biopsie.
Biopsie.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Musculoskeletal.
MEDICAL > Orthopedics.
MEDICAL > Rheumatology.
Muscles > Biopsy
Muscles > Diseases > Diagnosis
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
  • Myopathies with Vacuoles
  • Metabolic Myopathies I: Glycogenoses and Lysosomal Myopathies
  • 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
  • Appendix 2: Useful Websites.