Full Description
This richly-illustrated handbook covers all aspects of modern feline dermatology, from the approach to different signs and symptoms to the description of the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and current treatment of each feline dermatological disease. Thus this manual serves as essential practical guide to the busy practitioner to quickly and surely tackle cats with dermatological conditions, and offers a current and complete reference tool for the feline veterinarian and the veterinary dermatologist.
Contents
1. Introductory chapters.- Structure and function of feline skin.- Coat color genetics.- Approach to the feline patient: general and dermatological examination.- 2. Problem oriented approach to.- Alopecia.- Papules, pustules, furuncles and crusts.- Plaques, nodules and eosinophilic granuloma complex lesions.- Excoriations, erosions and ulcers.- Scaling.- Pruritus.- Otitis.-3. Skin diseases by etiology.- Bacterial diseases.- Mycobacterial diseases.- Dermatophytosis.- Deep fungal diseases.- Sporothrichosis.- Malassezia.- Viral diseases.- Leishmaniosis.- Ectoparasitic diseases.- Flea biology, allergy and control.- Feline atopic syndrome: epidemiology and clinical presentation.- Feline atopic syndrome: diagnosis.- Feline atopic syndrome: therapy.- Mosquito-byte hypersensitivity.- Autoimmune diseases.- Immune mediated diseases.- Hormonal and metabolic diseases.- Genetic diseases.- Psychogenic diseases.- Neoplastic disease.- Paraneoplastic syndromes.- Idiopathic miscellaneous diseases.
