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Abstract
Diagnose, treat, and manage equine skin disorders with the most comprehensive reference available! With 900 full-color photos, Equine Dermatology covers skin diseases ranging from those that merely annoy the horse to others that interfere with the horse's ability to function in riding, working, or show. Thorough coverage includes essential basics and practical diagnostic methods, therapies, and specific abnormalities and defects. The book describes the structure and function of the skin, and discusses disorders including bacterial, fungal, parasitic, viral, protozoal, allergic, immune-mediated, endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional diseases. It also covers congenital and hereditary defects, pigmentation abnormalities, keratinization defects, environmental skin diseases, and skin tumors. Written by renowned equine dermatologists Danny Scott and Bill Miller, this all-inclusive resource covers the latest dermatologic topics and the newest therapies.
- Current, comprehensive coverage includes every known equine dermatosis.
- An emphasis on differential diagnosis includes key differentials and breed predilections for each disease, especially helpful when you have only a specimen and an incomplete history to work with.
- A consistent format makes it easy to locate information on each skin disorder, including a clinical description, its cause and pathogenesis, clinical features, clinical management, diagnosis, treatment, and any zoonotic aspects.
- Expert authors Danny W. Scott, DVM, and William H. Miller, Jr., VMD, offer years of knowledge, experience, and their vast image collections.
- Diagnostic tables in each chapter provide a quick reference for identifying lesions and disorders.
- An extensive list of references at the end of each chapter includes recommendations for further reading.
- New coverage of dermatologic conditions includes the latest topics and emerging disorders such as chronic progressive lymphedema, herpesvirus-2-associated dermatitis, salmonella-associated dermatoses, and nodular auricular chondropathy.
- Updated Diagnostic Methods chapter covers multiple methods of developing a differential diagnosis list based on breed, lesion type, patterns, and location.
- A focus on common clinical problems highlights the conditions most likely to be seen in practice.
- Almost 1,000 full-color photos of skin disorders make it easy to distinguish clinical characteristics and variations of normal and abnormal for accurate diagnosis and therapy.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Front Cover | Cover | ||
Equine Dermatology | iii | ||
Copyright | iv | ||
Preface | v | ||
Acknowledgments | vii | ||
Preface and Acknowledgments from the First Edition | ix | ||
Contents | xiii | ||
Chapter 1: Structure and Function of the Skin | 1 | ||
General functions and properties of the skin | 1 | ||
Ontogeny | 1 | ||
Gross anatomy and physiology | 2 | ||
Microscopic anatomy and physiology | 6 | ||
References | 32 | ||
Chapter 2: Diagnostic Methods | 35 | ||
The systematic approach | 35 | ||
Records | 35 | ||
History | 35 | ||
Physical examination | 41 | ||
Laboratory procedures | 49 | ||
The vocabulary of dermatohistopathology | 69 | ||
Dermatologic diagnosis by histopathologic patterns | 85 | ||
Special procedures | 98 | ||
References | 99 | ||
Chapter 3: Dermatologic Therapy | 101 | ||
Basic nutrition and the skin | 101 | ||
Cleaning the skin | 102 | ||
Client compliance | 103 | ||
Topical therapy | 104 | ||
Physical therapy | 119 | ||
Broad-spectrum systemic therapies | 119 | ||
Skin surgery | 125 | ||
Alternative therapies | 127 | ||
Gene therapy | 128 | ||
References | 129 | ||
Chapter 4: Bacterial Skin Diseases | 130 | ||
Cutaneous bacteriology and normal defense mechanisms | 130 | ||
Skin infections | 131 | ||
Treatment of skin infections | 132 | ||
Staphylococcal infections | 138 | ||
Streptococcal infections | 147 | ||
Corynebacterial infections | 148 | ||
Rhodococcal infections | 151 | ||
Actinomycetic infections | 152 | ||
Dermatophilosis | 152 | ||
Actinomycosis | 158 | ||
Miscellaneous actinomycete infections | 159 | ||
Nocardiosis | 159 | ||
Actinobacillosis | 159 | ||
Abscesses | 161 | ||
Bacterial pseudomycetoma | 161 | ||
Clostridial infections | 163 | ||
Anaerobic infections | 165 | ||
Mycobacterial infections | 165 | ||
Anthrax | 166 | ||
Salmonella infections | 166 | ||
Glanders | 166 | ||
Melioidosis | 168 | ||
Miscellaneous infections | 168 | ||
References | 168 | ||
Chapter 5: Fungal Skin Diseases | 171 | ||
Cutaneous mycology | 171 | ||
Superficial mycoses | 172 | ||
Subcutaneous mycoses | 187 | ||
Systemic mycoses | 202 | ||
Antifungal therapy | 206 | ||
References | 210 | ||
Chapter 6: Parasitic Diseases | 212 | ||
Therapeutics | 212 | ||
Mites | 216 | ||
Tick infestation | 225 | ||
Spiders | 227 | ||
Lice infestation | 227 | ||
Fleas | 230 | ||
Flies | 230 | ||
Helminths | 239 | ||
References | 249 | ||
Chapter 7: Viral and Protozoal Skin Diseases | 251 | ||
Viral diseases | 251 | ||
Protozoal diseases | 258 | ||
References | 261 | ||
Chapter 8: Skin Immune System and Allergic Skin Diseases | 263 | ||
Introduction | 263 | ||
Cluster differentiation antigens | 263 | ||
Skin immune system | 267 | ||
Types of hypersensitivity reactions | 275 | ||
Therapy for hypersensitivity disorders | 276 | ||
Hypersensitivity disorders | 281 | ||
References | 312 | ||
Chapter 9: Immune-Mediated Disorders | 314 | ||
Diagnosis of immune-mediated skin disease | 314 | ||
Therapy of immune-mediated skin diseases | 315 | ||
Autoimmune diseases | 317 | ||
References | 358 | ||
Chapter 10: Endocrine, Nutritional, and Miscellaneous Hair Coat Disorders | 360 | ||
Endocrine disorders | 360 | ||
Nutritional skin diseases | 368 | ||
Miscellaneous hair coat disorders | 371 | ||
References | 376 | ||
Chapter 11: Keratinization Defects | 378 | ||
Antiseborrheic treatments | 378 | ||
Equine seborrhea | 381 | ||
Linear keratosis | 385 | ||
Cannon keratosis | 386 | ||
References | 387 | ||
Chapter 12: Pigmentary Abnormalities | 389 | ||
Terminology and introduction | 389 | ||
Hyperpigmentation | 389 | ||
Hypopigmentation | 390 | ||
Miscellaneous pigment changes | 396 | ||
carotenodermia | 397 | ||
References | 397 | ||
Chapter 13: Environmental Skin Diseases | 398 | ||
Mechanical injuries | 398 | ||
Thermal injuries | 402 | ||
Primary irritant contact dermatitis | 404 | ||
Chemical toxicoses | 408 | ||
Plant toxicoses | 410 | ||
Mycotoxicoses | 411 | ||
Zootoxicoses | 412 | ||
Photodermatitis | 413 | ||
Miscellaneous effects of solar exposure | 417 | ||
Pruritus and neurologic diseases | 419 | ||
References | 420 | ||
Chapter 14: Congenital and Hereditary Skin Diseases | 421 | ||
Disorders of the skin and follicular epithelium | 421 | ||
Disorders of pigmentation | 428 | ||
Disorders of collagen | 429 | ||
Endocrine and nutritional disorders | 431 | ||
Disorders of vessels | 431 | ||
Miscellaneous disorders | 433 | ||
References | 434 | ||
Chapter 15: Miscellaneous Skin Diseases | 436 | ||
Eosinophilic granuloma | 436 | ||
Unilateral papular dermatosis | 440 | ||
Axillary nodular necrosis | 442 | ||
Sterile eosinophilic folliculitis and furunculosis | 444 | ||
Multisystemic eosinophilic epitheliotropic disease | 445 | ||
Linear alopecia | 448 | ||
Panniculitis | 449 | ||
Sarcoidosis | 453 | ||
Idiopathic sterile granuloma/pyogranuloma | 455 | ||
Sebaceous adenitis | 456 | ||
Idiopathic sterile neutrophilic dermatitis | 457 | ||
Nodular auricular chondropathy | 458 | ||
Scleroderma | 458 | ||
Anhidrosis | 459 | ||
Hyperhidrosis | 460 | ||
Hematidrosis | 460 | ||
Pastern dermatitis | 460 | ||
Coronary band disorders | 462 | ||
Self-mutilation syndrome | 463 | ||
Head shaking syndrome | 464 | ||
Calcinosis circumscripta | 465 | ||
References | 466 | ||
Chapter 16: Neoplasms, Cysts, Hamartomas, and Keratoses | 468 | ||
Cutaneous oncology | 468 | ||
Epithelial neoplasms | 468 | ||
Mesenchymal neoplasms | 479 | ||
Lymphohistiocytic neoplasms | 499 | ||
Melanocytic neoplasms | 504 | ||
Miscellaneous cutaneous neoplasms | 508 | ||
Paraneoplastic syndromes | 508 | ||
Nonneoplastic tumors | 508 | ||
References | 513 | ||
Index | 517 |