Full Description
Improve your dermatological diagnostic accuracy.
The most efficient method in the diagnosis of skin diseases is the combined validation of clinical and histopathological features. The results of biopsy investigation in isolation don't always yield answers. But when considered together, the clinical pattern and the histopathology, then diagnosis can become clearer. In this process the diagnostic impact of histopathology may be decisive or just confirmative to the clinical differential diagnosis. The structure of the book follows a basic approach to morphology, which is overall orientation at scanning magnification first, then identifying a prototypic pattern, and finally finding the essential diagnostic clue(s) under high power magnification.
Dermatopathology: Practical Differential Diagnosis by Clinicopathologic Pattern provides top quality images to correlate clinical presentations with histopathologic features. Annotated images highlight subtle indications that can clinch the diagnosis. Concise, bullet-pointed text provides further context.
Written by internationally renowned authors, the book is ideal for anyone involved in the diagnosis of skin disease.
Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction xiii
1 Horny Layer 1
Reduced granular layer
Prominent granular layer
2 Epidermis 15
Eczematous
Acute
Subacute
Chronic
Pruriginous
Psoriasiform
Bullous, acantholytic
Pustular
Degenerative
Necrotic
Ballooning
Koilocytic
Atrophic
3 Dermal-epidermal Junction (Interface) 109
Lichenoid
Subepidermal blistering
4 Dermis 133
Edema
Infiltrates
Non-granulomatous
Granulomatous
Connective tissue
Sclerosis
Perforation and extrusion
5 Vessels 221
Intravascular coagulation
Vasculitis
Small vessel
Medium-sized vessel
Medium and large
Localized
Arteritis
Vasculopathic changes
6 Subcutis 265
Panniculitis, septal
Panniculitis, lobular
Fat necrosis
7 Deposition and Storage 281
Foreign bodies
Lipids
Mucin
Amyloid
Calcium and bone
8 Adnexae 321
Pilosebaceous unit
Hair
Hair follicles not reduced
Hair follicles reduced
Index 351
