BookVictor Dubowitz, Anders Oldfors, Caroline A. Sewry.
Contents:
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.