CONCISE TEXTBOOK OF EQUINE CLINICAL PRACTICE BOOK 4 LIVER ENDOCRINE URINARY SKIN AND WOUNDS (PB 2024) Paperback

This concise, practical guide provides veterinary students with essential knowledge for excelling in equine medicine and surgery, focusing on skin, urinary, liver, and endocrine diseases. Written for a global audience, the book presents key information in a clear, easily understandable format, utilizing bullet points, tables, flow charts, diagrams, lists, protocols, and numerous illustrations. As part of a five-book series derived from Munroe's Equine Surgery, Reproduction, and Medicine, Second Edition, it distills best practices into a straightforward, clinical approach. The book covers clinical anatomy, physical examination techniques, diagnostic methods, and normal parameters, with an emphasis on resources typically available to general practitioners, without requiring advanced techniques. The liver section includes clinical evaluation, diagnostic tests, potential causes, and treatment options. The endocrine disease section presents a diagnostic approach followed by detailed discussions of specific disorders such as thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary gland issues, equine metabolic syndrome, and other related conditions. The urinary tract section includes information on diagnostic tests, imaging, and diseases affecting the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. The skin section explores diagnostic methods and covers various skin diseases under categories like genetic, infectious, immune-mediated, nutritional, endocrine, idiopathic, traumatic, and neoplastic causes. Skin wounds, burns, and infections of synovial structures are also addressed. This book is ideal for veterinary students and nurses during clinical placements with horses, as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference in the field.