Dermoscopy: The Essentials

Description:

Dermoscopy: The Essentials presents the practical guidance you need to master this highly effective, more economical, and less invasive alternative to biopsy. Drs. Peter Soyer, Giuseppe Argenziano, Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, and Iris Zalaudek explain all aspects of performing dermoscopy and interpreting results. With approximately 30% new clinical and dermoscopic images, valuable pearls and checklists, and online access to the fully searchable and downloadable text, you’ll have everything you need to diagnose earlier and more accurately.

• Avoid diagnostic pitfalls through pearls that explain how to accurately use dermoscopy and highlight common mistakes.
• Master all aspects of performing dermoscopy and interpreting the results with easy-to-use "traffic light" systems and checklists for quick and effective learning.
• Gain a better visual understanding with approximately 30% new clinical and dermoscopic images that depict the appearance of benign and malignant lesions and feature arrows and labels to highlight important manifestations.
• Get better diagnostic results for less by learning how to successfully perform dermoscopy with this portable, to-the-point resource.

1. Table of Contents

2. Copyright

3. Preface to the Third Edition

4. Acknowledgements

5.

1. Introduction: The 3-point checklist: The short, easy way to avoid missing a melanoma using dermoscopy

6. Technique

7. The 3-point checklist

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2. Pattern analysis: Dermoscopic criteria for specific diagnoses

9. Four global dermoscopic patterns for melanocytic nevi

10. Diagnosis of melanoma using five melanoma-specific criteria

11. Diagnosis of facial melanoma using four site-specific melanoma-specific criteria

12. Four patterns for acral melanocytic lesions

13. Six criteria for diagnosing non-melanocytic lesions

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3. Common clinical scenarios: Side-by-side comparisons of similar-appearing lesions that are benign or malignant

15. Introduction

16. Pediatric scenario

17. Black lesions

18. Inkspot lentigo

19. Blue lesions

20. Reticular lesions

21. Spitzoid lesions

22. Special nevi

23. Multiple Clark (dysplastic) nevi

24. Follow-up of melanocytic lesions

25. Lesions with regression

26. Flat lesions on the face

27. Nodular lesions on the face

28. Acral lesions

29. Pigmented lesions of the nails

30. Mucosal lesions

31. Differential diagnostic value of blood vessels

32. Amelanotic and partially pigmented melanoma

33. Dermoscopy tests

34. Further reading

35. Index