Description
Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management serves as an easy-to-consult, short, and schematic reference providing guidelines for diagnosing and managing melanoma in the context of various clinical scenarios. In the daily routine of a busy clinician, there is a need for schematic reference tools that allow quick consultation for immediate decisions. Melanoma is a deadly disease that should be promptly managed following precise and evidence-based guidelines.The guide contains many schematics and figures, vastly outnumbering the pages dedicated to text. This guide follows the sequence of a real clinical setting, going from the first screening visit to the final stages of terminal patients.- Provides a quick-access resource for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma patients at all stages- Includes succinct guidelines, schematics, and figures for busy clinicians- Concludes with a section addressing special clinical situations, including melanoma in pregnancy, pediatric melanoma, familial melanoma and MPM, atypical Spitz tumor, occult primary melanoma, and the histopathologic gray zone
Table of Contents
1. Melanoma epidemiology and risk factors2. Diagnosis of primary melanoma3. Staging of melanoma patients4. Therapy of melanoma5. Follow-up of disease-free patients6. Special clinical situations
