Product Description

Univ. of Georgia, Athens. Previously titled Veterinary Laboratory Medicine: Clinical Pathology, c1994. Textbook provides an overview of veterinary pathology. Provides a problem-solving approach to laboratory data. Discusses such topics as urinary system, endocrine system, and digestive system. For veterinary students. Outline format. Previous edition: c1994.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59109 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 450 pages

From the Back Cover
Duncan and Prasse’s Veterinary Laboratory Medicine provides readers with an excellent overview of veterinary clinical pathology. The new edition retains its elegantly simple outline format and section organization (physiology, evaluation methods, disorders, and appropriate clinical cases), enabling readers to quickly identify key words, ideas and information in the text. Each chapter is followed by a current reference list, primarily from referred professional journals.

The fourth edition

• applies a problem-solving approach to interpretation of laboratory data.


• covers dogs, cats, horses, domestic ruminants, pigs, and companion birds.


• instructs veterinary students and practitioners in the proper interpretation of clinical laboratory data in order to form a list of differential diagnoses or to make a definitive diagnosis.


• emphasizes the mechanism or pathophysiology of the various abnormalities rather than specific diseases.


• adds and refines case studies to illustrate many of the concepts in interpretation of laboratory data


• includes excellent high resolution color photomicrographs and easy-to-understand tables and figures.

About the Author
Kenneth S. Latimer, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, is professor of pathology and Director of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory in the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens.
Keith W. Prasse, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, is professor of pathology and Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens.
Edward A. Mahaffey, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, is professor of pathology and Associate Dean for Public Service and Outreach, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Ath

Customer Reviews

Excellent book
In my opinion, the best veterinary clinical pathology book. Great easy to read format. Consise, but providing more than just the basics. Great cases studies in the back that review topics.

A continous list
Altough complete, updated and deep covering most of the aspect of clinical pathology, exposition of the matter is done in the list form, like a "things to buy" note. It looks like a student's lesson note and the subject is not treated in the usual way a book does, as say with sensed phrases that correlate one to the next following a logical thread. It is more a manual than a book and it is something that is impossible to read one paragraph after the other, and even harder to remember. Anyway it carries a lot of useful information and helped me whenever i needed.