Short description
Part of the popular SECRETS SERIES, this all-new text provides essential, practical information for reviewing pathology commonly encountered in clinical situations. Organized by disorder type, it features numerous photos, a popular question-and-answer format, and a detailed index that makes it easy to find information quickly. In more than 50 chapters, expert contributors propose key questions and provide authoritative answers addressing the situations that confront small animal veterinarians every day.
Long description
Part of the popular SECRETS SERIESTM, this all-new text provides essential, practical information for reviewing pathology commonly encountered in clinical situations. Organized by disorder type, it features numerous photos, a popular question-and-answer format, and a detailed index that makes it easy to find information quickly. In more than 50 chapters, expert contributors propose key questions and provide authoritative answers addressing the situations that confront small animal veterinarians every day.
Review
Veterinary Clinical Pathology Secrets is part of the Secret SeriesA(R) of specialty review texts intended for veterinary students, practitioners, and residents. Content includes hematology, lymphoid neoplasms, acid base disorders, serum chemistries, urinalysis, cytopathology, and nonmammalian (avian and reptilian) clinical pathology. It follows a question-reply format, with questions asked and then answered via short paragraphs, lists, and/or tables. This serves the book's intent well, by providing focused, easy to absorb, packets of information. The book's content is generally time-tested basic clinical pathology drawn from larger veterinary clinical pathology and internal medicine textbooks and review papers. This book is not meant as a primary text, but rather as a review, and will be appreciated as such by veterinary students preparing for state boards, non clinical pathology residents preparing for specialty boards, and clinical pathology residents in their 1st or 2nd year of training. Practitioners and pathologists may want to consider this book for its sizable section on avian and reptilian clinical pathology.
- Veterinary Pathology 42: 397-399 (2005)
Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS Section
- Hematology A
- Erythrocytes
- General Principles
- Erythrocyte Morphology
- Evaluation of Erythrocytes
- Anemia
- Polycythemia
- Erythrocyte Disorders
- Large Animal Hematology B
- Leukocytes
- Morphology, Function, and Kinetics
- Laboratory Evaluation of Leukocytes
- Interpretation of the Leukogram
- Altered Morphology and Function C
- Plasma Proteins
- Plasma Proteins D
- Myeloproliferative Disorders
- Myeloproliferative Disorders
- Acute Myeloid Leukemias
- Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes Section
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders
- General and Lymphoma/Lymphosarcoma
- Lymphoid Leukemias
- Plasma Cell Neoplasia Section
- Hemostasis
- Overview of Hemostasis
- Plateletopathies
- Disorders of Secondary Hemostasis
- Coagulation
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) and Thrombosis
- Microvascular and Macrovascular Thrombosis Section
- Electrolytes/Acid Base
- Introduction to Acid Base
- Metabolic Acid Base Disorders
- Respiratory Acid Base Disorders Section
- Renal/Urinalysis
- Evaluation of Renal Function
- Physical and Chemical Aspects of Urinalysis
- Microscopic Aspects of Urinalysis Section
- Liver/Muscle
- Tests for Evaluation of Liver Disease
- Laboratory Evaluation of Liver Disease in Domestic Animals
- Laboratory Evaluation of Muscle Disease in Domestic Animals Section
- Lipids/Carbohydrates
- Lipids Including Triglycerides and Cholesterol
- Carbohydrates Section
- Gastrointestinal/Pancreas
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Pancreas Section
- Endocrine
- Laboratory Testing for Thyroid Disease
- Lab