Overview
The book covers all aspects of myopathology in detail
Chapters cover the latest evidence based approach in diagnosis of skeletal muscle diseases
Easy to follow algorithms and key points in each chapter
Ample illustrations and figures
Special section covers the controversies in the pathophysiology and diagnosis of skeletal muscle diseases
Covers clinico-pathologic approach to muscle biopsy diagnosis of commonly encountered cases in detail
Separate section for skeletal muscle biopsy banking
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book covers all aspects of basic, essential, recent advances and controversies in myopathology. The major emphasis is on diagnostic myopathology of muscular dystrophies, inflammatory myopathies, mitochondrial myopathies, metabolic myopathies, congenital myopathies, myopathies of miscellaneous etiology, neurogenic and neuromuscular junction disorders, the goal being to broaden readers’ understanding of individual disease subgroups. The book also contains all the essential details needed to establish a neuromuscular lab, making it especially relevant for laboratory technical staff and research scholars.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Balan Louis Gaspar (MD Pathology, DM Histopathology) graduated from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He is a recipient of the prestigious “Prof. Subhash Kumari Gupta Memorial Gold Medal” in MD Pathology. He completed his three-year DM training at the same institute from January 2014 to December 2016, thereby becoming the first candidate with a DM Histopathology certification in India. In addition, he established the state-of-the-art neuromuscular lab at the Department of Histopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. He has more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed national and international indexed journals to his credit. He is currently the Consultant-in-Chief of the Molecular Pathology, Neuromuscular Pathology, Nephropathology and Immunopathology divisions at G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore, India.
Rakesh Kumar Vasishta obtained his MD Pathology from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, and completed his MRCPath and FRCPath at the Royal College of Pathologists, London, UK. Under his leadership, for the first time in India, the super-speciality DM in Histopathology course was introduced at PGIMER. He has more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed national and international indexed journals to his credit. He is currently a Professor and Head of the Histopathology at PGIMER.
Bishan Dass Radotra obtained his MD Pathology from the Govt. Medical College Rohtak, India. He completed his PhD at the Queen’s University of Belfast, UK and has been a visiting scientist to the same institute. He has also been a Senior Research Fellow and Clinical Neuropathologist at the Imperial College and Hammersmith Hospital, London. He received a Commonwealth scholarship award in 1992 (UK), the Harold Miller Memorial Prize from the Irish Neurological Association in 1995, Dr. Aikat Memorial Oration at the 61st Annual conference of the IAPM, Jamnagar – December 2012 and the Dr. S. N. De Memorial Oration, West Bengal Chapter, IAPM, in Sept 2012. He has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed national and international indexed journals to his credit. He is currently a Professor of Neuropathology at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Myopathology
Book Subtitle: A Practical Clinico-pathological Approach to Skeletal Muscle Biopsies
Authors: Balan Louis Gaspar, Rakesh Kumar Vasishta, Bishan Dass Radotra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1462-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1461-2Published: 06 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4637-8Published: 02 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1462-9Published: 24 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 299
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 157 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pathology