Features updates throughout,as well as new chapters on key topics, including more than 10 new chapters on nail tumors and soft tissue tumors
Details recent advances in diagnostic, immunohistochemical, molecular, and genetic techniques used for identification in neoplastic dermatopathology, including terminology updates needed for everyday diagnostic determinations on often difficult and challenging cases
Contains detailed yet concise chapters with critical information such as definitions, epidemiology, clinical presentation, macro- and microscopic features, differential diagnoses, and pathologic interpretation pearls—all in an easy-to-reference format
Features more than3,000 high-quality print images (with an additional 2,700 images in the complimentary eBook), including gross pathology and clinical photographs, histology images, full-color medical illustrations, and immunohistochemistry and radiology images—all carefully annotated to help you quickly recognize established entities
Includes updated staging details for melanoma, cutaneous lymphoma, and additional tumors
Shares the knowledge and expertise of two highly regarded dermatopathologists: Dr. David Cassarino, professor of pathology, and Dr. Christine Ko, professor of dermatology, who present unified yet diverging perspectives in this challenging area
Reflects the most recent information from the World Health Organization (WHO) 2023 update and European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
Features a templated, highly formatted design; concise, bulleted text; key facts in each chapter; and an extensive index for easy reference
Includes an eBook version that enables you to access all text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
PART I: MELANOCYTIC TUMORS OF SKIN Section 1: Benign Melanocytic Tumors (Nevi) Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Common Acquired Melanocytic Nevi Conventional Blue Nevi Cellular Blue Nevi Combined Nevi Halo Nevi Nevi of Special Sites Inverted Type A Nevi Deep Penetrating Nevi 36 Conjunctival Melanocytic Nevi Dermal Melanocytosis: Acquired and Congenital Paraganglioma-Like Dermal Melanocytic Tumor Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi Spitz (Spindle and Epithelioid Cell) Nevi Pigmented Spindle Cell Nevus (Reed Nevus) BAP1-Inactivated Melanocytoma
Section 2: Malignant Tumors (Melanomas And Related Lesions) MELANOMA IN SITU Melanoma In Situ, Lentigo Maligna Type Melanoma In Situ, Superficial Spreading Type Melanoma In Situ, Not Otherwise Specified INVASIVE MELANOMA Childhood Melanoma Atypical/Borderline and Malignant Spitz Tumors Melanoma, Lentigo Maligna Type Melanoma, Superficial Spreading Type Melanoma, Nodular Type Desmoplastic Melanoma Nevoid Melanoma Acral Lentiginous Melanoma Oral Melanoma Mucosal Melanoma (Genital) Sinonasal Melanoma Conjunctival Melanoma Malignant Cellular Blue Nevus (Melanoma Arising in or Mimicking a Cellular Blue Nevus) Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma ("Animal-Type Melanoma") Primary Dermal Melanoma Other Unusual and Rare Variants of Melanoma Staging for Specimens of Malignant Melanoma of Skin
PART II: NONMELANOCYTIC TUMORS OF SKIN Section 1: Epithelial Cysts Epidermoid/Epidermal Inclusion Cyst Pilar (Trichilemmal) Cyst Proliferating Pilar (Trichilemmal) Cyst/Tumor HPV-Related Epidermal Cyst Vellus Hair Cyst Steatocystoma (Multiplex) Cutaneous Keratocyst Milium Hidrocystoma (Apocrine and Eccrine) Digital Mucous Cyst Bronchogenic Cyst Branchial Cleft Cyst Median Raphe Cyst Cutaneous Ciliated Cyst
Section 3: Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions of the Hair Follicle Nevus Sebaceus and Follicular Hamartomas Trichofolliculoma Trichoadenoma Trichoepithelioma Trichoblastoma and Trichoblastic Carcinoma Panfolliculoma Tumor of the Follicular Infundibulum Dilated Pore of Winer Pilar Sheath Acanthoma Inverted Follicular Keratosis Trichilemmoma Trichilemmal Carcinoma Pilomatrixoma and Pilomatrical Carcinoma Fibrofolliculoma and Trichodiscoma
Section 4: Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions With Sebaceous Differentiation Sebaceous Hyperplasia Superficial Epithelioma With Sebaceous Differentiation Sebaceoma (Sebaceous Epithelioma) Sebaceous Adenoma Sebaceous Carcinoma
David S. Cassarino, MD, PhD, Consultant Dermatopathologist and Staff Pathologist, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California and Christine J. Ko, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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