Muscle biopsy : a practical approach /
Victor Dubowitz, Anders Oldfors, Caroline A. Sewry.
- Fifth edition.
- 529p.; illustrations (chiefly color)
Includes bibliographical references.
The procedure of muscle biopsy -- Histological and histochemical stains and reactions -- Normal muscle -- Histological and histochemical changes -- Ultrastructural changes -- Immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting -- How to read a biopsy -- Classification of neuromuscular disorders -- Neurogenic disorders -- Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders I : Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy -- Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders II: limb-girdle muscular dystrophies -- Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders III: congenital muscular dystrophies and associated disorders -- Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders IV: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and similar syndromes -- Muscular dystrophies and allied disorders V: facioscapulohumeral, myotonic and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophies -- Congenital myopathies and related disorders -- Myofibrillar myopathies and other myopathies with rimmed vacuoles -- Metabolic myopathies I: glycogenoses -- Metabolic myopathies II: lipid-related disorders and mitochondrial myopathies -- Myopathies associated with systemic disorders and ageing -- Ion channel disorders -- Myasthenic syndromes -- Inflammatory myopathies -- Toxic and drug-induced myopathies -- Appendices. Glossary of genetic terms -- Useful websites.