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Medleau, L., and Hnilica, K. A. Small Animal Dermatology: A Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide, second edition. 525 pp. Saunders Elsevier, St. Louis, MO, 2006. $110.00. ISBN 13 978-0-7216-2825-7.

The author's reason for writing this book was to serve as a companion color atlas for the now nearly 1500 page Muller and Kirk's Small Animal Dermatology and to function as a quick reference for current diagnostics and therapies for practitioners. To assist readers, the book is organized into chapters based on disease etiology similar to Muller and Kirk's text (e.g, bacterial diseases, hypersensitivity disorders, congenital diseases, etc.) and the chapters are then subdivided into comprehensive lists of specific diseases, including both inflammatory and neoplastic disorders. The last pages contain several handy appendices summarizing shampoos, and topical and systemic therapies. Each disease subdivision is concise, consisting of a page or two of brief text describing etiology, clinical features, top differential diagnoses, relevant diagnostics and pertinent points for therapy. In each disease section the text is followed by the major highlight of the book- several pages of color photographs clearly illustrating the disease features. The photographs are of excellent quality, arranged at most as six per page with short legends. Although the format based on Muller and Kirk's Small Animal Dermatology is a strength, it is also a weakness because one must have a fairly good idea of the diagnosis in order to know how to find the disease in the text; however, to address this difficulty, the authors' have added a first chapter containing differential lists and diagnostic algorithms to help narrow the rule-out list. A. Bernard Ackerman once said, "Pathologists often make the best dermatologists, and dermatologists the best pathologists because they see things from a different perspective." For those pathologists who want to learn to appreciate the gross changes associated with the skin biopsies they are examining, this is an excellent text. Small animal practitioners should find the book very helpful for establishing a diagnosis or differential list and in planning therapy.

Dr K. Credille

Lilly Research Laboratories, Greenfield, IN

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