Thursday, August 01, 2013

Equine Pastern Dermatitis: A Pathologist's Perspective

Thehorse.com - Full Article

By Equine Disease Quarterly
Jul 12, 2013

Inflammatory conditions of the pastern will be appearing with increasing frequency during the summer season. But as a diagnosis, “pastern dermatitis” leaves much to be desired. When this alone is noted on a biopsy report, it leaves the clinician and client with little useful knowledge.

Other names for this condition, with slightly varying clinical appearances, include scratches, mud fever, grease heel, dew poisoning, grapes, canker, and verrucous pododermatitis. But again, these colorful descriptors do not indicate the root of the problem. For that, pathologists rely on a series of modifiers describing the more subtle histologic (microscopic) variations on the theme of “dermatitis,” and, just as importantly, a detailed history...

Read more here:
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/32183/equine-pastern-dermatitis-a-pathologists-perspective?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=lameness&utm_campaign=07-31-2013

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