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
Contents
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.
- Cords and tubules.
- Papillated dermal tumor.
- Circular dermal islands.
- (Suggestion of) vessels.
- Hyperkeratosis.
- Parakeratosis.
- Upper epidermal changes.
- Acantholysis.
- Eosinophilic spongiosis.
- Subepidermal space/cleft.
- Perivascular infiltrate.
- Band-like upper dermal infiltrate.
- Interface reaction.
- Dermal material.
- Change in fat.
- Clear.
- Melanocytic.
- Spindle.
- Giant.
- Blue tumor.
- Blue infiltrate.
- Mucin and glands or ducts.
- Mucin.
- Pink material.
- Pink dermis.
- Epidermal necrosis.
Chapter 7 Index by Histological Category
Product Details
- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (March 15, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470657111
- ISBN-13: 978-0470657119
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.2 inches