Full Description
This book provides a complete overview on the latest available technologies in dermatology, while discussing future trends of this ever-growing field. This handy guide provides clinicians and researchers with a clear understanding of the advantages and challenges of laser and imaging technologies in skin medicine today. It also includes a section on imaging techniques for the evaluation of skin tumors, with chapters devoted to dermoscopy, in vivo and ex vivo reflectance confocal microscopy, high frequency ultrasound, optical coherence tomography, and a closing part on latest approaches to wound management.
Completed by over 200 clinical images, Current Technology in Practical Dermatology: Non-Invasive Imaging, Lasers and Ulcer Management is both a valuable tool for the inpatient dermatologist and for physicians, residents, and medical students in the field.
Contents
Foreword.- Preface.- Section I - Imaging techniques for the evaluation of skin diseases.- 1. Dermoscopy: fundamentals and technology advances.- 2. Dermoscopy for benign melanocytic skin tumors.- 3. Dermoscopy for Melanoma.- 4. Dermoscopy for non-melanocytic benign skin tumors.- 5. Demoscopy for non-melanocytic malignant skin tumors.- 6. Dermoscopy for inflammatory diseases.- 7. Dermoscopy for infectious diseases.- 8. Digital dermoscopy analysis.- 9. Optical super-high magnification dermoscopy.- 10. Fluorescence videodermoscopy.- 11.Total body photography and sequential digital dermoscopy for melanoma diagnosis.- 12. History and Fundamentals of Reflectance Confocal Microscopy.- 13.In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for benign melanocytic skin tumors.- 14. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for melanoma.- 15. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for non melanocytic benign skin tumors.- 16. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for non melanocytic malignant skin tumours.- 17. In vivo Reflectance Confocale Microscopy for Inflammatory Diseases.- 18. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for infectious diseases.- 19. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for mucous membranes.- 20. Ex vivo confocal microscopy.- 21. Ultrasound.- 22. Optical coherence tomography.- 23. High-Definition optical coherence tomography.- 24. 3D imaging.- 25. Raman spectroscopy.- 26. Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging for skin acquisition and analysis.- 27. Electrical impedance in dermatology.- Section II - Lasers and light sources technologies in dermatology.- 28. Laser Light and Light-tissue Interaction.- 29. Laser and light sources: safety and organization issues.- 30. Intense polichromatic lights and light emitting diodes:what's new.- 31. Vascular lasers: tips and protocols.- 32. Broadband intense pulsed lights for vascular malformations.- 33. Pigment specific lasers for benign skin lesions and tattoos: long pulsed, nanosecond and picosecond lasers.- 34. Skin resurfacing: ablative and non-ablative lasers.- 35. Photorejuvenation: concepts, practice, perspectives.- 36. Laser hair removal: updates.- 37. Biophotonic therapy induced photobiomodulation.- 38. Photodynamic Therapy.- Section III - Technological advances in wound management.- 39. Temporary dressing.- 40. Extracellular matrices.- 41. Skin bank bioproducts: the basics.- 42. Clinical applications of skin bank bioproducts.- 43. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy.- 44. Tissue Engineered skin substitutes.- 45. Biologics in Wound Management.- 46. Stem Cell in Wound Healing.- Section IV - New complementary tools for dermatologic diagnosis.- 47. Microbiopsy in dermatology.- 48. Noninvasive genetic testing: adhesive patch-based skin biopsy and buccal swab.- 49. Liquid biospsies