Book Details

Key Features

• Covers pathological aspects of skin diseases in addition to providing superb descriptions and illustrations of their clinical manifestations—the only available reference with this unique combination of features.
• Offers highly illustrated coverage of inflammatory skin diseases, neoplastic conditions, infectious diseases, and other dermatological disorders, with sections on clinical correlations, histopathological features, and differential diagnoses, making it a valuable resource for both dermatologists and pathologists.
• Contains more than 5,000 superb histopathologic and clinical illustrations that demonstrate the range of histologic manifestations, and features bulleted lists of clinical features and differential diagnosis tables for easy reference.
• Brings you up to date with key molecular aspects of disease, including targeted therapy and personalized medicine.
• Includes an extensively revised chapter on melanoma that reflects recent significant changes in cancer research, the molecular mechanism of cancer, and the implications of these mechanisms in developing targeted therapies for treatment.
• Discusses key topics such as including the use of biologics for the treatment of inflammatory disease; new antigens/antibodies for tumor diagnosis and staging; next-generation sequencing and other molecular assays; improved clinical-pathological correlations for integrated care; increased understanding of genetic skin disorders and rare dermatological conditions; and much more.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook 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. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.