Main description:

The atlas that helps you differentiate visually similar diseases

Written from a trainee′s perspective, the second edition of Dermatopathology: Diagnosis by First Impression uses more than 800 high resolution color images to introduce a simple and effective way to defuse the confusion caused by dermatopathology slides. Focused on commonly tested entities, and using low– to high–power views, this atlas emphasizes the key differences between visually similar diseases by using appearance as the starting point for diagnosis.

The Second Edition provides:

• 800 high resolution photographs


• ′Key Differences′ to train the eye on distinctive diagnostic features


• Disease–based as well as alphabetical indexes


• 30 new disease entities

Dermatopathology: Diagnosis by First Impression, Second Edition, introduces a simple and effective way for you to approach dermatopathology.

Back cover:

The atlas that helps you differentiate visually similar diseases

Written from a trainee′s perspective, the second edition of Dermatopathology: Diagnosis by First Impression uses more than 800 high resolution color images to introduce a simple and effective way to defuse the confusion caused by dermatopathology slides. Focused on commonly tested entities, and using low– to high–power views, this atlas emphasizes the key differences between visually similar diseases by using appearance as the starting point for diagnosis.

The Second Edition provides:

• 800 high resolution photographs


• ′Key Differences′ to train the eye on distinctive diagnostic features


• Disease–based as well as alphabetical indexes


• 30 new disease entities

Dermatopathology: Diagnosis by First Impression, Second Edition, introduces a simple and effective way for you to approach dermatopathology.

Contents:

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1 Shape on Low Power.

Polypoid.

Square/rectangular.

Regular acanthosis.

Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia above abscesses.

Proliferation downward from epidermis.

Central pore.

Palisading reactions.

Space with a lining.

Epidermal perforation.

Cords and tubules.

Papillated dermal tumor.

(Suggestion of) vessels.

Circular dermal islands.

Chapter 2 Top–Down.

Hyperkeratosis/parakeratosis.

Upper epidermal change.

Acantholysis.

Eosinophilic spongiosis.

Subepidermal space/cleft.

Perivascular infiltrate.

Band–like upper dermal infi ltrate.

Interface reaction.

Granular "material" in cells.

"Busy" dermis.

Dermal material.

Change in the fat.

Chapter 3 Cell Type.

Clear.

Melanocytic.

Spindle.

Giant.

Chapter 4 Color Blue.

Blue tumor.

Blue infi ltrate.

Mucin and glands or ducts.

Mucin.

Chapter 5 Color Pink.

Pink material.

Pink dermis with vessels.

Epidermal necrosis.

Index by Pattern.

Index by Histological Category.

Alphabetical Index.