Clinical Signs and Diagnosis in Small Animal Practice

This in-depth reference constitutes the most comprehensive textbook of veterinary medicine to use a "clinical signs", rather than an anatomic approach to the differential diagnosis of small animal disorders. The book focuses on a wide spectrum of diseases--from simple to complex--and offers the successful diagnostic approaches of 43 recognized experts. Each chapter defines a specific clinical problem and presents a diagnostic plan based on history-taking, physical examination, laboratory profiles and interpretation, radiographic studies and interpretation, other special diagnostic procedures, and information on unknown underlying pathogenic mechanisms. Clinical algorithms and tables supplement the text.