The Melanocytic Proliferations : a Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions.

The Melanocytic Proliferations : a Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions.

A thorough updating of this best-selling textbook, The Melanocytic Proliferations is the most comprehensive single-source treatment of the subject available. Presenting an experience- and evidence-based review of pigmented lesions encompassing the biology, diagnosis, and treatment of melanocytic pro...

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Main Author: Crowson, A. Neil
Other Authors: Magro, Cynthia M., Mihm, Martin C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.
©2014
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Melanoma.
Anatomy.
anatomy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Melanoma
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Disclosure; About the Companion Website; Chapter 1: An Approach to the Clinical Diagnosis of Melanoma, Its Precursors, and Its Clinical Mimics; Introduction; Incidence and risk; Precursors to melanoma; Approach to the patient; Initial encounter; History; Physical examination; Approach to the individual pigmented lesion; Summary; Atlas of Clinical Lesions Correlating to Various Entities Discussed in the Text; Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines; Chapter 3: Benign Acquired Nevi.
  • Chapter 4: Dermal Dendritic Melanocytic Proliferations/Dermal MelanocytosesChapter 5: Spitz Nevus; Chapter 6: Combined Nevus, Deep Penetrating Nevus, and Plexiform Spindle Cell Nevus; Chapter 7: Recurrent Melanocytic Nevus; Chapter 8: Congenital Nevi; Chapter 9: Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi, De Novo Intraepidermal Epithelioid and Lentinginous Melanocytic Dysplasias, and Nevi at Specific Anatomic Sites; Chapter 10: Melanoma; Chapter 11: Conjunctival Melanocytic Proliferations; Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines; Freckles (ephelides); Clinical features; Histopathology (Figure 2.1).
  • Differential diagnosisDowling-Degos disease; Clinical features; Histopathology; Lentigines: Lentigo simplex and the lentiginoses; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.3A, B); Mucosal lentigines; Labial melanotic macule; Genital lentigines; Vulvar and penile melanosis; Acral lentigines; Melanotic macule of the nail matrix; Actinic (solar) lentigo; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11); Differential diagnosis; Pigmented actinic keratosis (Figure 2.14); PUVA-induced lentigines (PUVA therapy/tanning beds/xeroderma pigmentosum); Clinical features.
  • Histopathology (Figure 2.15)Large cell acanthoma; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.12A, B, 2.13A, B); Becker nevus; Clinical features; Histology (Figure 2.16); Ink spot lentigo; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.17, 2.18); Melasma; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.19, 2.20A, B); Pathogenesis; Treatment; Albright syndrome; Clinical features; Histology; The café-au-lait macule; Clinical features (Table 2.2); Histopathology (Figures 2.21, 2.22, 2.23; Table 2.2); Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.24, 2.25A, B).
  • Chapter 3: Benign Acquired NeviBroad overview of clinical features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1); Broad overview of the histologic features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired junctional nevus (Figures 3.1, 3.2; Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired compound nevus (Figure 3.3; Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired dermal nevus (Figures 3.4 through 3.10; Table 3.1); Other acquired benign nevi; Balloon cell nevus; Cockarde nevus; Nevus spilus; Problematic topics in the realm of the common acquired nevus.

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