Muller and Kirk's Small Animal Dermatology

About this book

Fully revised and updated, Muller Kirk's "Small Animal Dermatology" provides students and veterinarians the most complete, up-to-date and user-friendly textbook of dermatology for dogs, cats, and pocket pets. This popular resource thoroughly details everything concerning etiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, and therapy. Lavishly illustrated with clinical, microscopic and histopathological materials, it features over 1200 illustrations.

Contents

Structure and function of the skin; diagnostic methods; dermatologic therapy; bacterial skin diseases; fungal skin diseases; parasitic skin diseases; viral, rickettsial, and protazoal skin diseases; skin immune system and allergic skin diseases; immune-mediated disorders; endocrine and metabolic diseases; acquired alopecias; congenital and hereditary defects; pigmentary abnormalities; keratinization defects; psychogenic skin diseases; environmental skin diseases; nutritional skin diseases; miscellaneous skin diseases; diseases of eyelids, claws, anal sacs, and ears; neoplastic and non-neoplastic tumors; dermatoses of pet rodents, rabbits and ferrets; chronology of veterinary dermatology (1900-1998).

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