Hair Loss Disorders in Domestic Animals is an in-depth reference on the pathomechanisms and clinical approaches of all skin diseases in domestic animals that have hair loss as the predominant clinical feature.
It presents both basic and clinically-relevant knowledge on alopecic disease in animals. Hair Loss Disorders in Domestic Animals is a one-of-a-kind resource providing cutting-edge coverage of the physiology and pathology of hair follicles.
Disease-specific chapters include a detailed description of:
- the disease entity
- etiology
- pathogenesis
- clinical and histopathological diagnosis
- treatment modalities
Contents
Hair follicle physiology and anatomy
- Hair follicle phylogeny and ontology
- Physiology and anatomy of hair follicle cycling
- Comparative aspects between domestic animal species, laboratory animals, and humans
How to approach alopecic diseases
- Clinical aspects
- Histopathological aspects
Non-inflammatory alopecias of domestic animals
- Congenital diseases of hair follicles
- Hair follicle aplasia
- Dyplasia and trichomalacia
- Melanocytic
- Unclassified congenital alopecia in domestic animals
- Acquired hair shaft abnormalities/acquired trichomalacia
- Wool slip in sheep
- Alopecia caused by malnutrition
- Disorders of hair follicle cycling
- Hyperthyroidism
- Telogen arrest and telogen effluvium
- Hyperadrenocorticism
- Hyperestrogenism
- Classical Alopecia X in plush-coated breeds
- Canine recurrent flank alopecia
- Canine pattern baldness
- Acquired alopecia in Water Dogs
- Acquired alopecia in other breeds
- Hair follicle dystrophy
- Hair follicle atrophy
- Cutaneous vasculitis
- Dermatomyositis
- Traction alopecia
- Feline paraneoplastic alopecia
- Scarring/cicatricial alopecia
- Traumatic alopecia
- Psychic alopecia in cats
- Pruritus
Inflammatory alopecias of domestic animals
- Luminal folliculitis
- Neutrophilic luminal folliculitis and furunculosis
- Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis
- Mural folliculitis.
- Lymphocytic interface folliculitis
- Granulomatous/histiocytic folliculits
- Bulbar folliculitis
Appendix
- Therapeutic dose of drugs frequently used to treat alopecia
- Endocrine function tests
Index
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