Main 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