Main description:

This book provides practicing pathologists, dermatologists, cutaneous oncologists and dermatopathologists with a reference textbook that reviews the clinical and histopathologic features of skin disorders that affect children, along with a discussion of the molecular pathogenesis for each disease as it is currently known. The book includes a concise discussion of the clinical presentation, as well as the histologic and, when appropriate, immunohistochemical features of each disease. The book is divided into two main sections, non-neoplastic and neoplastic skin diseases. Each section is comprised of a series of chapters organized according to histologic findings rather than by clinical classification systems. This will enable the practicing pathologist to browse chapters based upon observation of routine histologic patterns. Each chapter addresses the differential diagnoses of skin disorders with focus on salient histologic characteristics. The text is richly illustrated with over 1000 colorful clinical and histologic photographs for each of the 400 entities discussed. Pediatric Dermatopathology provides a microscope table reference for the practicing pediatric pathologist, general pathologist and dermatopathologist. Further, it will serve as a reference volume for dermatologists, pediatricians and oncologic surgeons.

Contents:

1. Spongiotic Dermatitis

2. Papulosquamous Diseases

3. Vesiculobullous Dermatoses

4. Interface Dermatoses

5. Dermatoses with Minimal Epidermal Changes

6. Granulomatous Eruptions

7. Diseases of Collagen and Elastic Tissue

8. Vasculitides, Vasculopathies and Neutrophilic Infiltrates

9. Panniculitis

10. Inflammatory Disorders of the Cutaneous Appendages

11. Bacterial and Protozoal Diseases

12. Viral and Rickettsial Diseases

13. Fungal Diseases

14. Insect Bites and Infestations

15. Nutritional Disorders

16. Deposition Disorders

17. Disorders of Pigmentation

18. Diseases of the Hair and Nails

19. Iatrogenic Dermatology Conditions

20. Melanocytic Proliferations and Other Pigmented Lesions

21. Vascular Anomalies

22. Hematopoietic Proliferations

23. Keratinoocytic Cysts and Hamartomas

24. Neoplasms

25. Fibrous Proliferations

26. Neural Proliferations

27. Adipocyte Proliferations

28. Muscle and Bone Proliferations

29. Benign Hamartomatous Proliferations

30. Cutaneous Metastases