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These notes are a fairly comprehensive collection of information to complement the lectures and labs delivered in VETM2220, Systems Pathology II, on the topic of the pathology of the eye and ear. Although all of the information is useful, certain areas will have been emphasized in lecture, let the areas focused on in lectures and lab guide your studying. There are a few rare conditions that are not discussed in these notes, and you are encouraged to read through the relevant chapters in the textbooks recommended below.

Unfortunately, there are only three lectures assigned to this topic, barely enough time to begin scraping the surface of eye and ear pathology. Reviewing these notes will be critical, and they will hopefully help serve as a reference when you are in practice. Diseases of the eye and ear are very commonly encountered, especially in small animal practice. Developing a good understanding of the pathogenesis of the various ocular and aural conditions will serve you well as a practitioner for years to come.

The notes are available online at http://russfraser.ca/eye-ear/, as a PDF on Moodle, and as an Epub (E-book format, suitable for a tablet). Please feel free to provide feedback, whether on content, style, or typos!

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Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

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Reference material

  • Zachary, J. F., & McGavin, M. D. (2016). Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease Expert Consult. Elsevier Health Sciences.
  • Maxie, G. (2015). Jubb, Kennedy & Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals-E-Book (Vol. 1). Elsevier Health Sciences.

Acknowledgements

These lecture notes were prepared in R (R Core Team 2022) using the bookdown (Xie 2015), knitr (Xie 2022), and Rmarkdown (Allaire et al. 2022) packages. Source material was taken from Zachary and McGavin (2016), Dubielzig et al. (2010), Grahn, Peiffer, and Wilcock (2019), and Maxie (2015). I gratefully acknoweldge the prior course notes from Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust. Images are attributed throughout the text; unattributed images are either mine or were found in the public domain.

License

Veterinary Systems Pathology - Ocular and Aural Pathology by Russell Fraser is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

References

Allaire, JJ, Yihui Xie, Jonathan McPherson, Javier Luraschi, Kevin Ushey, Aron Atkins, Hadley Wickham, Joe Cheng, Winston Chang, and Richard Iannone. 2022. Rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for r. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown.
Dubielzig, Richard R, Kerry L Ketring, Gillian J McLellan, and Daniel M Albert. 2010. Veterinary Ocular Pathology e-Book: A Comparative Review. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Grahn, Bruce, Robert Peiffer, and Brian Wilcock. 2019. Histologic Basis of Ocular Disease in Animals. Wiley Blackwell.
Maxie, Grant. 2015. Jubb, Kennedy & Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals-e-Book. Vol. 1. Elsevier Health Sciences.
R Core Team. 2022. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. https://www.R-project.org/.
Xie, Yihui. 2015. Dynamic Documents with R and Knitr. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman; Hall/CRC. http://yihui.name/knitr/.
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Zachary, James F, and M Donald McGavin. 2016. Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease Expert Consult. Elsevier Health Sciences.