Small Animal Dermatology: A Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide 4th Edition

Your Comprehensive Guide to Small Animal Dermatology, 4th Edition

This book provides concise, thorough information on more than 250 skin diseases affecting small animals. Selected as a Doody’s Core Titles® 2024, this guide is streamlined for practical, everyday use in the clinic. With more than 1,400 high-quality images, it helps ensure accurate diagnoses, with coverage including recognizable clinical signs, top differentials, diagnostic tests, and treatment recommendations for each disorder.

Key Features

• Extensive Visuals: More than 1,450 vivid, full-color images in atlas format clearly demonstrate the clinical appearance of skin lesions to facilitate accurate diagnosis and treatment. An atlas of before-and-after treatment images provides a compelling client communication tool.
• Comprehensive Drug Appendices: The book features comprehensive drug appendices that highlight information about dosage, adverse reactions, indications, and contraindications for antimicrobial, antiseborrheic, and antipruritic shampoo therapy, topical, otic, and systemic therapeutic drugs.
• New Pattern Approach: The new "Pattern Approach Dermatology" content describes where on the body, and in what formations, common dermatologic diseases exhibit.
• Updated Content: It includes updated key charts and tables, a classification of diseases by age of onset, and a classification of symmetrically distributed disease from asymmetric disease. There is also enhanced coverage of zoonotic and contagious skin diseases.
• Feline-Specific Information: The book includes additional content on how cats may present with allergic skin disease, helping you to properly diagnose feline dermatology.
• Practical Procedures: Detailed procedures include helpful illustrations of key techniques, and bulleted content within each disease description informs you of specific indications of when it is necessary to culture and biopsy skin.