Concise Textbook of Equine Clinical Practice Book 4

Your Concise Guide to Equine Medicine and Surgery

This book is a concise, practical text that covers the essential information veterinary students need to succeed in equine medicine and surgery, with a specific focus on skin, urinary, liver, and endocrine diseases. Written for an international readership, the book conveys core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet points, tables, and illustrations.

Key Features

• Practical and Concise: It distils best practice in a logical, straightforward clinical-based approach.
• Comprehensive Coverage: It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques, and normal parameters, emphasizing what is regularly available to general practitioners.
• Systematic Organization: The book's content is systematically organized. The liver section is divided into clinical evaluation, diagnostic tests, possible causes, and treatment. The approach to endocrine disease is followed by specific diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and pituitary gland. The approach to urinary tract problems includes information on diagnostic tests and imaging, renal diseases, and diseases of the ureter, bladder, and urethra.
• Skin Disease: Skin disease is discussed in detail, including relevant diagnostic tests. Individual skin diseases are covered under headings of genetic, infectious, immune-mediated, nutritional, endocrine, idiopathic, traumatic, and neoplastic causes. The book also discusses skin wounds, burns, and infections of synovial structures.
• Visual Learning: The book is extensively illustrated with over 650 full-color, high-quality photographs, making it a great resource for visual learning.
• Broad Audience: Ideal for veterinary students and nurses on clinical placements with horses, as well as for practitioners needing a quick reference "on the ground."