Take Home Message

This program has provided the keys to diagnosis in dermatology.

These can be summarised as follows:

• Take time to ask the right questions. In a complex case, make another appointment to allow this.
• The lesions enable you to identify the underlying pathology, helping to make your differentials more precise.
• Lesions are accessible. Simple tests done right away will often enable you to make a diagnosis or eliminate several possible differentials.
• Therapy can be used as a tool to advance diagnosis whilst making the affected animal more comfortable