cover image - Dermatology: Visual Recognition and Case Reviews, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323697255
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 02-22-2021
Page Count: 304
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $94.99

Dermatology: Visual Recognition and Case Reviews, 2nd Edition

by Christine Ko, MD

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cover image - Dermatology: Visual Recognition and Case Reviews, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323697255
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 02-22-2021
Page Count: 304
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $94.99
    • Content organized by visual patterns (color, shape, pattern, and body part), maximizing your ability to recognize disease – the same way a patient would normally present in the clinic. 

    • High-quality clinical and microscopic images for nearly all entities, helping to enhance your diagnostic and clinicopathologic correlation skills. 

    • Key difference pages, enabling you to quickly compare and contrast different diseases in a given differential diagnosis that can look similar but are distinguishable. 

    • Newly reorganized, color-coded table of contents for quicker navigation. 

    • New flashcards online to test your ability to recognize diseases by visual presentation.  

    • Case reviews that provide clear examples of specific approaches to patient evaluation. 

    • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

  • Introduction: Visual Intelligence

    PART 1: OVERVIEW

    1. Key concepts

    2. Differential diagnosis for given body sites and morphology

    3. Distribution – specific differentials

    PART 2: EPIDERMAL-BASED DISEASES

    4. Spongiotic/eczematous processes

    5. Psoriasiform rashes

    6. Small, scaly lesions

    7. Epidermal-based lesions

    PART 3: EPIDERMAL/DERMAL PROCESSES

    8. Epidermal injury/necrosis

    9. Purpura, small vessel vasculitis, and vascular occlusion

    10. Ulcers

    11. Epidermal neutrophils

    12. Vesiculobullous, numerous lesions

    13. Vesicles and papulopustules in infants

    14. Blistering, localized

    PART 4: DERMAL/DEEPER PROCESSES

    15. Follicular processes

    16. Dermal inflammation

    17. Deep soft tissue disorders: panniculitis and others

    18. Dermal-based lesions

    19. Dermal cysts/developmental anomalies

    20. Small papules secondary to a dermal process

    21. Dermal change due to deposition

    22. Sclerosing disorders

    PART 5: MISCELLANEOUS

    23. Helminths/arthropods

  • Christine Ko, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, USA