Main description:

The majority of tropical diseases manifest themselves through the skin, and while many can be diagnosed on physical examination, dermatopathologic results are often of critical importance to the diagnostic process. However, general dermatopathology texts lack images of diseases endemic in the developing world; they also lack clinical correlates linking the pathology to the clinical entity. This is a problem, because greater movement between countries where tropical diseases are prevalent and Europe, North America and other developed nations makes it essential for physicians to be able to recognize, diagnose and treat these diseases.

Dermatopathology of Tropical Diseases covers the pathology and clinical correlations of the most important tropical diseases. Each entity is described using brief text that summarises its epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical features. The diagnostic process is then described and illustrated using both clinical and histopathologic images. Wherever possible, different examples are shown of the same disease, in order to illustrate as wide a variety of presentations as possible.

Extensively illustrated with almost 600 photographs, Dermatopathology of Tropical Diseases is an invaluable resource for dermatopathologists, pathologists and dermatologists based in the developing world as well as those in developed countries who see tropical diseases in returned travellers and immigrant populations.

Key features

Includes chapters on all major tropical diseases, with both clinical and histopathological images provided for each entity, allowing the reader to correlate pathological characteristics with the clinical presentation of each disease
Wherever possible, different examples of the same disease are shown, to illustrate the variety of presentations
Lavishly illustrated with almost 600 colour photographs

Contents:

PART 1: BACKGROUND

1 Introduction

PART 2: VIRAL DISEASES

2 Orf and milker's nodules
3 Dengue
4 Hydroa vacciniforme and hydroa-like lymphomas
5 Infective dermatitis: a cutaneous manifestation of HTLV-1 infection

PART 3: BACTERIAL AND RICKETTSIAL INFECTIONS

6 Rhinoscleroma
7 Endemic treponematoses
8 Carrion's disease
9 Plague
10 Cutaneous anthrax
11 Bacterial mycetomas: actinomycosis, botryomycosis, and nocardiosis
12 Rickettsiosis
13 Granuloma inguinale
14 Pitted keratolysis
15 Erythrasma
16 Tularemia
17 Tropical ulcer

PART 4: MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTIONS

18 Leprosy
19 Cutaneous tuberculosis
20 Buruli ulcer
21 Nontuberculous mycobacterial skin infections

PART 5: MYCOTIC INFECTIONS

22 Eumycotic mycetomas
23 Lobomycosis
24 Chromoblastomycosis
25 Tinea nigra
26 Phaeohyphomycosis
27 Sporotrichosis
28 Alternariosis
29 Hyalohyphomycoses
30 Zygomycosis
31 Paracoccidioidomycosis
32 Histoplasmosis
33 Rhinosporidiosis
34 Cryptococcosis
35 North American blastomycosis

PART 6: ARTHROPOD-INDUCED DISEASES

36 Venomous arthropods
37 Myiasis
38 Tungiasis

PART 7: PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS

39 Cutaneous leishmaniasis
40 Diseases caused by ameba
41 Chagas' disease

PART 8: ALGAE INFECTIONS

42 Protothecosis

PART 9: HELMINTH INFESATIONS

43 Schistosomiasis
44 Cutaneous larva migrans
45 Gnathostomiasis
46 Cysticercosis
47 Sparganosis
48 Echinococcosis
49 Human filariasis