Myopathology

.- Introduction to normal skeletal muscle: Anatomy, physiology, histology, and ultrastructure
.- Muscle biopsy procedure and processing.-Histochemistry and Immunochemistry of normal muscle.- Histochemistry and Immunochemistry of normal muscle.- A pathologist's expectation from the clinician.- Myopathology: Common terminologies  Illustrated.- Classification of skeletal muscle diseases.- Muscular dystrophies.- Inflammatory myopathies.- Mitochondrial myopathies and related diseases.- Congenital myopathies and related diseases.- Metabolic myopathies and related diseases.- Myopathies of miscellaneous etiology.- Diseases of neuromuscular junction.- Neurogenic disorders.- A beginner's approach to skeletal muscle biopsy.- Skeletal muscle biopsy banking.- Recent advances and controversies in myopathology

Balan Louis Gaspar (MD Pathology, DM Histopathology) graduated from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He is a recipient of the prestigious "Prof. Subhash Kumari Gupta Memorial Gold Medal" in MD Pathology. He completed his three-year DM training at the same institute from January 2014 to December 2016, thereby becoming the first candidate with a DM Histopathology certification in India. In addition, he established the state-of-the-art neuromuscular lab at the Department of Histopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. He has more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed national and international indexed journals to his credit. He is currently the Consultant-in-Chief of the Molecular Pathology, Neuromuscular Pathology, Nephropathology and Immunopathology divisions at G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore, India.

Rakesh Kumar Vasishta obtained his MD Pathology from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, and completed his MRCPath and FRCPath at the Royal College of Pathologists, London, UK. Under his leadership, for the first time in India, the super-speciality DM in Histopathology course was introduced at PGIMER. He has more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed national and international indexed journals to his credit. He is currently a Professor and Head of the Histopathology at PGIMER.