Full Description
The book deals with dermatologic diseases involving serious cutaneous malignancies. The sections are organized alphabetically and color-coded. Approximately 40 disease states are discussed with accompanying full-color clinical and microscopic photography. Each entity contains a single clinical photograph accompanied by three photomicrographs detailing the diagnostic features of each case. Subsections detailing disease prognosis are presented in a bullet-style. The pedagogical value of this book is its unique presentation of a variety of dermatologic entities capable of leading to serious medical consequences including death.
Contents
Malignant Cutaneous Neoplasms.- Angiosarcoma.- Cutaneous B-Cell Lymphoma.- Granulomatous Slack Skin.- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.- Leukemia Cutis.- Mast Cell Disease (Urticaria Pigmentosa).- Merkel Cell Carcinoma.- Metastatic Carcinoma.- Paget's Disease.- Subcutaneous Panniculitis-like Lymphoma.- Hereditary Cancer-Predisposition Syndromes and Paraneoplastic Disorders.- Muir-Torre Syndrome.- Acquired Ichthyosis, Acanthosis Nigricans, Palmar Hyperkeratosis.- Amyloidosis: Systemic, Nodular, and Epidermal Derived.- Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome.- Cowden's Syndrome.- Gyrate Erythemas: Erythema Gyratum Repens and Erythema Chronicum Migrans.- Gardner Syndrome.- Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis.- Multiple Cutaneous Leiomyomas.- Lethal Non-Langerhans Cell Histiocytoses: Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma and Xanthoma Disseminatum.- Pancreatic Panniculitis.- Scleromyxedema.- Necrolytic Migratory Erythema.- Infectious Diseases.- Anthrax.- Ecthyma Gangrenosum.- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and the Rickettsioses.- Smallpox.- Staphylococcal Toxin-Mediated Scalded Skin and Toxic Shock Syndromes.- Meningococcemia and Purpura Fulminans.- Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Autoimmune Disease.- Lethal Hereditary Vascular Disorders: Osler-Weber-Rendu, Ataxia-Telangiectasia, and Fabry's Disease.- Eruptive Xanthoma.- Graft-versus-Host Disease.- Paraneoplastic Pemphigus and Pemphigus Vulgaris.- Relapsing Polychondritis.- Vascular Diseases.- Calciphylaxis (Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy).- Kawasaki Disease.- Polyarteritis Nodosa.
