Dermatology: Visual Recognition and Case Reviews

Designed for dermatologists, dermatopathologists, and trainees of all levels, Dermatology: Visual Recognition and Case
Reviews is a brand-new resource that aims to maximize your skill at recognizing diseases by visual presentation. Its
unique dedication to rich images enhances your learning experience, ability to understand and visualize key concepts,
and retention of information, while case reviews offer examples of the framework that can be used when approaching a
patient.

Key Features
뷖oncise text allows the focus to be placed on images, maximizing your ability to recognize diseases by visual
presentation to better prepare you for day-to-day clinic, certification and maintenance exams.
뷒rranged by patterns of skin disease (e.g. diffuse vs. localized, patterned), with clues (e.g. islands of sparing,
nail changes) to different diagnoses and emphasis on the correlation between clinical and microscopic findings.
뷠ey difference pages for each section/subsection enable you to quickly compare and contrast different diseases that
can look similar but are distinguishable.
뷖ase reviews hone in on specifics when evaluating a patient.
뷓oasts high-quality clinical and pathological images for nearly all entities, plus useful body schematic shows likely
distribution areas.
뷚eatures differential diagnosis of particular presentations.
뷙xpert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the
text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Author Information
By Christine J. Ko, MD, Associate Professor, Dept of Dermatopathology, Yale University, New Haven, CT,USA


Table of Contents
PART 1 OVERVIEW

Body sites and regional key differences

Differential diagnosis for given body sites and morphology

Distribution - specific differentials

PART 2 SPECIFIC DISORDERS

Psoriasiform rashes

Small, scaly lesions

Spongiotic/eczematous processes

Epidermal neutrophils

Epidermal injury/necrosis

Follicular processes

Small papules secondary to a dermal process

Dermal inflammation

Sclerosing disorders

Vesiculobullous, numerous lesions

Blistering, localized

Newborn vesicles and papulopustules

Helminths/arthropods

Ulcers

Purpura, small vessel vasculitis, and vascular occlusion

Epidermally-based lesions

Dermally-based lesions

Dermal cysts/developmental anomalies

Dermal change due to deposition

Deep soft tissue disorders: panniculitis and others

PART 3 CASE REVIEWS

Case reviews