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2014 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Pathology category!

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 muscle disease, this medical reference book takes an integrated approach to diagnosis and assessment of muscle biopsies that includes clinical, genetic, biochemical, and pathological features. It´s the comprehensive, up-to-date coverage you need to evaluate muscle disorders with confidence.

"Overall, this is a well written and comprehensive textbook of muscle pathology that will be of invaluable assistance to laboratories reporting muscle pathology" Reviewed by The Bulletin of The Royal College of Pathologists, Jan 2015

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Section 1 The Biopsy: Normal and Diseased Muscle

1. The 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

Section 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 {Driefuss muscular dystrophies and Bethlem myopathy

14. Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders V: facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, 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 myopathies
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Appendix 1. Glossary of commonly used terms

References

Index

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