Skeletal muscle pathology
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Skeletal muscle pathology
Churchill Livingstone, 1992
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This is the second edition of the successful multiauthor work on muscle disease for the diagnostic pathologist and the neurologist. The book is organised by disease, with introductory chapters on morphology, immunology, pathogenesis and biopsy technique. For the second edition there are new contributors, a new chapter on muscle biopsy and material on new techniques (eg cytochemistry).
Table of Contents
Skeletal Muscle. Normal Morphology, Development and Innervation. Muscle Biopsy. Pathological Reactions of Skeletal Muscle. Immunopathology of Skeletal Muscle. Developmental Disorders of Muscle. Congenital Myopathies. The Muscular Dystrophies. Myotonic Disorders. Periodic Paralysis and Electrolyte Disorders. Mitochondrial Diseases. Skeletal Muscle Storage Diseases: Myopathies Resulting from Errors in Carbohydrate and Fatty Acid Metabolism. Inflammatory Myopathies. Endocrine Myopathies. Drug-Induced, Toxic and Nutritional Myopathies. The Pathology of Malignant Hyperthermia. Neurogenic Disorders. Pathology of the Neuromuscular Junction. Pathology of Intramuscular Nerves and Nerve Terminals. Pathology of the Muscle Spindle. Circulatory Disorders and Pathology of Intramuscular Blood Vessels. Tumours of Skeletal Muscle. Muscle Trauma. Disuse, Cachexia and Ageing. Myosetes Ossificans, Myosclerosis and Other Miscellaneous Disorders. Index
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