This illustrated work aims at helping veterinary surgeons to communicate with pet owners. After the previous volume about surgery, this atlas dedicated to dermatology helps the vet to explain the physiological and pathological characteristics of skin as well as the characteristics of diagnostic tests, treatments and surgical techniques. Every illustration describes the clinical aspects of the dermatology consultation: anatomical and physiological considerations about the skin and its adnexa, and graphic descriptions of infectious, inflammatory, endocrine, allergic or tumoral diseases. The clarity and accuracy of the illustrations turn this atlas into another useful clinical tool.
Author:
Carmen Lorente
She graduated and obtained her PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid (1988, 2005) and is certified in Dermatology by the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD).
She began her professional career by founding the Cercedilla Veterinary Clinic in 1989, where she worked until 2002. In 2000 she moved to Valencia as a tenured professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (UCH-CEU) and head of the Dermatology Service of the UCH-CEU Veterinary teaching Hospital. In 2007 she went back to Madrid and founded the Adervet Veterinary Dermatology Centre, which she has been managing up to now. From 2007 to 2009, she combined her work at Adervet with the management of the areas of small animal dermatology and internal medicine at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Alfonso X el Sabio University in Madrid.
Full member of the European Society of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD), member of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology (ISVD), of AMVAC, of AVEPA and of the GEDA Scientific Committee. Master in Dermatology by the European School of Advanced Veterinary Studies (ESAVS) in 1998. Speaker in many congresses, courses, conferences, seminars, practical workshops and author of several national and international publications.
Member of the AMVAC Scientific Committee and part of the AMVAC Board of Directors since November 2011. Member of the Local Organising Committee for the European Congress of Dermatology ESVD-ECVD 2013. Regular guest on the radio show “Como el perro y el gato” (“Like cats and dogs”) of the Spanish radio station Onda Cero.
Tables of contents:
1. Structure and function
Follicular cycle
Defence mechanisms of the skin
The skin as an indicator of health status
2. Diagnostic tests
Skin scrapings
Trichogram
Skin surface cytology
Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology
Culture of dermatophytes
Bacterial culture and sensitivity tests
Skin biopsy
Ear examination
3. Clinical manifestations and pathological processes
PRURITUS
Skin diseases that cause pruritus
Diagnostic protocol for allergic triad
Chronic pruritus: hyperpigmentation, acanthosis
Acral dermatitis or lick granuloma
ALOPECIA
Types of alopecia and diagnostic plan
Noninflammatory alopecia
Follicular dysplasia
Ischaemic skin diseases
Scarring alopecia and telogen effluvium
Feline symmetrical alopecia
Alopecia and skin atrophy secondary to topical corticosteroid treatment
Cyclic flank alopecia
Post-shaving and traction alopecia
Pattern baldness
PUSTULES AND EPIDERMAL COLLARETTES
Pyoderma
Antibiotic treatment of pyoderma
Other processes that cause pustules
EROSIONS AND ULCERS
Trauma-induced erosions and ulcers
Immune-mediated diseases
Diseases with erosive and ulcerative lesions
Feline idiopathic ulcerative dermatitis
Feline viral infections
Feline eosinophilic granuloma complex
KERATOSEBORRHEIC DISORDERS
Seborrhoea
Nasodigital hyperkeratosis
Ear margin seborrhoea
Schnauzer comedo syndrome
Sebaceous adenitis
Calluses and callus pyoderma
Canine and feline acne
Zinc-responsive dermatitis
PIGMENTATION DISORDERS
Diseases associated with skin depigmentation
Skin hyperpigmentation
MISCELLANEOUS
Feline paraneoplastic diseases
Canine paraneoplastic diseases
Skinfold dermatitis or intertrigo
Canine oral papillomatosis
Shar pei mucinosis
Surgical treatment of abscesses
Shampoo therapy
Controlling pruritus
Long-acting antibiotics