Clinical Handbook for Small Animals

Author: Morgan | Translator
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book provides a new, practical manual for small animal clinical medicine, with concise and brief content, and a format that is easy to find and apply. The book discusses each disease topic of small animals under different categories such as definition, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. In terms of content organization, emphasis is placed on determining feasible diagnostic methods, treatment measures, and care. This manual includes seventeen chapters, starting with the examination of sick animals, followed by the eleven major systems of the animal body, and then infectious diseases, behavioral and nutritional diseases, toxicology, and injuries caused by environmental factors. In each chapter, it is divided into different sections based on the anatomical structure of the system. Within each section, different diseases are arranged in the following order: congenital, developmental, degenerative, infectious, idiopathic, parasitic, metabolic, toxic, immunomediated, vascular, nutritional, neoplastic, and traumatic. The entire book is organized basically in this order, making it easy for readers to find or guess the location of the content they are looking for.