Systemic veterinary pathology: Musculoskeletal system

This book is dedicated to veterinary students o understand the pathology of the muscular system through macroscopic and microscopic observations, and be able to make morphological diagnoses in cases of animal death involving the muscular system. This book is expected to be a guide for students of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, who are currently and will be taking Veterinary Systemic Pathology courses as well as those attending Veterinary Professional Education.

The material of this book is mostly extracted from the textbook "Special Veterinary Pathology" especially in terms of classification and nomenclature of the lesion (damage) and combined with supporting information in the form of case examples taken from international scientific journals. Some specific lesion images were taken from veterinary pathology journals and pages as well as the author's personal documentation. This book is presented in several chapters. Chapter I explains the structure and function of muscles. muscle fiber type, muscle type, and differences in the three muscle types microscopically. Chapter II describes the types of general reactions of muscles due to various disorders, the pathogenesis of general reactions of muscles, and post-death changes in muscles.

Chapter III explains the pathology of degeneration, muscle necrosis, and circulatory disorders and makes morphologic diagnoses for the alteration of the three disorders.

Chapter IV describes the types of non-neoplastic growth disorders in muscles and their morphological diagnoses and the types of neoplastic growth disorders and their diagnoses

Chapter V explains the causes of myopathy and examples of diseases, the pathogenesis of diseases with primary myopathic lesions, pathology of diseases with myopathic primary lesions.

Chapter VI describes examples of diseases with primary lesions myositis, the pathogenesis of diseases with primary lesions myositis, and pathology of diseases with primary lesions myositis.