Dermatopathology

Description:
Using an enjoyable, easy-to-understand approach, Dermatopathology, Fourth Edition, combines online lectures and vast labeled image collections both in print and online to provide a uniquely effective learning package in this challenging subspecialty. Dr. Dirk M. Elston, Dr. Tammie Ferringer and colleagues walk you through the “must-know” points of each topic, making dermatopathology easier to understand. It’s an ideal resource for exam and board preparation and for mastering efficient, accurate diagnoses of the most important common dermatologic findings seen in practice.

Features:

• Uses an outline atlas format with ample visuals, key points, and pearls
• Includes abundant high-resolution histopathology examples with labels and pointers highlighting key aspects of each slide, providing additional clarity
• Features 27 lectures—more than 8 hours of targeted teaching that take you through the must-know elements of each topic in a dynamic, engaging manner
• Contains expanded coverage of soft tissue tumors, and new entities such as acantholytic dyskeratoma, borrelial disease, acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP), acral erythema of chemotherapy, epithelioid histiocytoma, cellular digital fibroma, nuchal type fibroma, elephantiasis nostras verrucosa, ganglion, ossifying fibromyxoid tumor of soft parts, aggressive angiomyxoma, alveolar soft part sarcoma, and much more
• Offers extensive, visually stunning images in print with bonus materials online, including 2,500 virtual infectious disease slides, a soft tissue tumor atlas with 300 images, a lymphoma atlas, and more; print atlas includes more than 1,300 images (300 new to this edition)
• Provides new flashcards online to test your knowledge and identify areas for further review
• An digital version is included with purchase. The digital allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Table Of Contents:

1. The basics: diagnostic terms, skin anatomy, and stains

2. Benign tumors and cysts of the epidermis

3. Malignant tumors of the epidermis

4. Pilar and sebaceous neoplasms

5. Sweat gland neoplasms

6. Melanocytic neoplasms

7. Interface dermatitis

8. Psoriasiform and spongiotic dermatitis

9. Blistering diseases

10. Granulomatous and histiocytic diseases

11. Inflammatory vascular diseases

12. Genodermatoses

13. Alterations in collagen and elastin

14. Metabolic and deposition disorders

15. Disorders of skin appendages

16. Panniculitis

17. Bacterial, spirochete, and protozoan infections

18. Fungal infections

19. Viral infections, helminths and arthropods

20. Fibrous tumors

21. Tumors of fat, muscle, cartilage, and bone

22. Neural tumors

23. Vascular tumors

24. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, NK-cell lymphoma, and myeloid leukemia

25. B-cell lymphoma and lymphocytic leukemia

26. Metastatic tumors and simulators