Herpetological Osteopathology. Annotated Bibliography of Amphibians and Reptiles

463 Pages·2012·5.1 MB·English

Herpetological Osteopathology

Bruce M. Rothschild
Hans-Peter Schultze
Rodrigo Pellegrini
Herpetological
Osteopathology
Annotated Bibliography
of Amphibians and Reptiles
Bruce M. Rothschild Hans-Peter Schultze
University of Kansas University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, USA Lawrence, Kansas, USA
[email protected]
Rodrigo Pellegrini
New Jersey State Museum
Trenton, New Jersey, USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-0823-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0824-6
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0824-6
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Preface
Sir William Osler, a famous nineteenth-century physician observed that
diagnosis without knowing the literature is like going to sea without charts.
The purpose of the current text is to provide the charts: The delineation of
available literature on the subject. This approach reconciles a very disparate
literature and facilitates access by herpetologists and other professionals
interested in amphibian and reptile disease. It should be of interest to anyone
working on animal models of disease and their behavioral implications. The
book is designed to also be accessible to non-herpetologists with specifi c
information available by common and scientifi c name and by disease or dis-
ease category, with a full glossary of terms provided. The book is annotated
to identify mistaken/superseded diagnoses and changes in taxonomic classi-
fi cation. The book provides a “library” for macroscopic osseous manifesta-
tions of a variety of diseases in higher vertebrates facilitating understanding
of literature-based diagnoses.
One of the challenges of research is that even the existence of articles
related to a particular subject may be hidden by the rarity and obscurity of the
publication. The literature of osseous pathology is rife with disparate citation,
such that a whole set of topical publications has not previously been available
in a single source. For example, shell disease in contemporary turtles has
been a source of confusion, partially fueled by a disparate literature. The criti-
cal studies on turtle shell pathogenesis were published in literature sources
not cited in the standard studies of structural pathology. This is an example of
one of the important contributions of this annotated bibliography. It makes
the whole span of the literature available to all, such that cross-communica-
tion and interdisciplinary efforts can be initiated. The current effort delineates
the information by publication, characterizes the contents of the publication,
establishes the validity of the conclusions and provides a unique indexing
system for identifying the pertinent literature by common and scientifi c
names. It represents an exhaustive literature compilation organized searching
by subject, examination of articles for additional, apparently, pertinent cita-
tions, and review of journal tables of contents. We would be honored to con-
sider this volume as a companion text to Elliot Jacobson’s 2007 tome on
reptile biology, anatomy, histology, and pathology.
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Acknowlegdments
We wish to express appreciation to the many individuals who have assisted us
with this study. Assistance with literature access was provided by Shiela Orth,
Tina Spray, Lars Leon of the KU Library System and Spencer Research
library, Donna Remely and Shaaron Warne of the New Jersey State Library,
Anne Kemp from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Eduardo Torres of
Santiago, Chile, Frank Rüli of the University of Zürich, Switzerland, Ignacio
Cerda from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Macarena Pellegrini of Copiapó, Chile
and Van Wallach of Cambridge, Massachussetts. Assistance with translation
was provided for Hebrew from Israel Herskovitz of Sackler Medical School,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, for Czech by Jiri Zidek of Praha, Czech
Republic, of Russian by Oleg Pisman, Olga Pavlova and Irina Haller,
Japanese by Kenshu Shimada from Chicago, Illinois and “Casey” Seto from
Ottawa, Kansas, and Japanese by Desui Miao from the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas. Luke Welton assisted with clarifi cation of phylogeny.
Specimen access was provided by Laura Abraczinskas (MSU), Alvin
Braswell (NCMNH), Judith M. Chupasko (MCZ), Carla Cicero (MVZ), Ted
Daeschler (ANSP), Robert Ferenac (NYSM), Darrel R. Frost (AMNH),
Michel Gosselin (CMN), James Hanken (NMNH), Johann Hegelbach
(UZNH), W. Ronald Heyer (NMNH), Janet Hinshaw (UMMZ), James L.
Knight (SCMNH), Kenneth Krysko (FLMNH), F Wayne King (FLMNH),
Ross D. MacCulloch (ROM), Larry Martin (KU), Max Nickerson (FLMNH),
Ronald A. Nussbaum (UMMZ), WR Pauwels (HU), Alan Resetar (FMNH),
Nate H. Rice (ANSP), Stephen P. Rogers (CM), José Rosado (MCZ), Greg
Schneider (UMMZ), John E. Simmons (formerly KU), Linda Trueb (KU),
Judit Varos (HNHM), Greg Watkins-Colwell (YPM), Yehudah L. Werner
(HU) and Kristof Zyskowski (YPM).
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About the Authors
Macroscopic Osteopathology: Bibliography of Amphibian
and Reptile Pathology
Bruce M. Rothschild, M.D. , graduated from New Jersey College of Medicine
in 1973. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, American
College of Rheumatology, and Society of Skeletal Radiology and was elected
to the International Skeletal Society. He has been recognized for his work in
rheumatology and skeletal pathology where his special interests focus on
clinical-anatomic-radiologic correlation, data-based paleopathology, evolu-
tion of infl ammatory arthritis and tuberculosis, and management of infl am-
matory arthritis. He is widely recognized for his contributions to understanding
radiologic manifestations of rheumatologic disease.
Dr. Rothschild has been a visiting professor at universities in the USA,
Canada, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa,
Asia, and Australia and has been an invited lecturer at universities, hospitals,
and museums throughout the world. He has published over 600 papers and
abstracts, including authoritative papers on the origins of rheumatoid arthritis,
spondyloarthropathy, syphilis, and tuberculosis, and character of bone changes
in metastatic cancer, myeloma, leukemia, tuberculosis, fungal disease, renal
disease, treponemal disease, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, gout,
calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, and hypertrophic osteoarthropa-
thy. He is the author of four books and has participated in eight Discovery
Channel/BBC documentaries on origins of diseases and ancient reptiles.
Since 1986, Dr. Rothschild has been professor of medicine at Northeast
Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH. He is also adjuvant professor of
anthropology at The University of Kansas and of biomedical engineering at
The University of Akron, Ohio, and holds research associateships at the
Carnegie Museum and Biodiversity Institute of the University of Kansas. He
was the fi rst director of the Rheumatology Division at The Chicago Medical
School and a prime force behind the resurgence of data-based paleorheuma-
tology and comparative osseous pathology.
Hans-Peter Schultze, Ph.D. , graduated from the Universität Tübingen,
Germany, in 1965. After 2 years as postdoc at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
Stockholm, Sweden, and 11 years at the Universität Göttingen as assistant
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