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Practical Dermatopathology: Textbook with CD-ROM Editorial Review: Based on Dr. Rapini's popular Atlas of Dermatopathology, this practical resource delivers expert guidance on the evaluation and diagnosis of skin biopsies. It lists the important clinical and histological features and variations for common and unusual diseases, highlights their most characteristic features, and provides list of differential diagnosis for clinical and pathologic changes. A user-friendly formatcombined with a wealth of full-color illustrations and extensive cross referencingmake this the ideal bench side companion for quick reference and more accurate diagnoses. And, a bonus CD-ROM provides all of the book's images for use in PowerPoint®.
Presents over 700 full-color illustrationswith leader lines pointing out key pathologic findingsthat depict a wide range of conditions.
Provides differential diagnosis lists of clinical and pathologic findings. Clinical lists are based on location, symptoms, duration, arrangement, morphology, and color. Pathologic lists include major categories such as epidermal changes, dermal changes, and cell types.
Features extensive cross-referencing of differential diagnosis lists by finding and disease, enabling readers to locate information quickly.
Includes a bonus CD-ROM featuring all of the book's images for use in PowerPoint®.
Customer Reviews: A must This is a must for every dermpath resident, general pathologist and even dermatologist. Easy to carry on, has the most relevant info for the most common skin conditions. It has a different, very intuitive approach to evaluate a biopsy, not only guided by patterns, but also with the clinical features, which are critical to a well oriented diagnosis.
It may look thin, but I can assure you that it will be your first reference book!.
Excellent book in the field of dermatopathology I usually prefer the book that had been written by one expert author over than that multi-author ones. This book is divided into 30 chapters. The first one is the most fruitful one. It illustrates 150 diffenetial diagnoses. The headings of these differentails are sorted alphebatically. They include histopathologic parameters such as spongiosis, papillomatosis, acantholysis, ... etc; and also include clinical findings like comedones, painful lesions, ... etc. The author considered that the approach for accurate diagnosis have to be guided, in certain situations, by the clinical information from the start rather that a certain histopathologic parameter, so that the pathologist should be aware about some clinical differentials.
The author explained the meaning of each heading in this chapter. "What is the meaning of spongiosis ?" before mention the possible differential diagnosis. Not only the meaning is given but also the differences between that finding and similar looking ones are justified. The differences between spongiosis and acantholysis are demonstrated before mentioning the diagnositc possibilities of spongiosis.
Each one of the diagnostic possibilites is written with a reference to its location within this book chapters. For example, within the list of differential of spongiosis I found "Pityriasis rosea (2.4)". (2.4) means I can find the details of such disease within chapter 2, heading 4.
The details of pathogenesis, complications, and treatment as well as normal skin histology are not included in this book, the author said that "the reader can readily find this information in some of the major
textbooks listed at the end of this book".
The illustrations are very technically excellent and expressive.
The other book chapters are named as any textbook "Malanocytic neoplasms, Subepidermal vesicular disease, Vasculitis, ...". The details are concise and easy to read.
The included CD contains all the images within the book for their use in electronic presentations.
This book makes the way to be a good dermatopathologist easier.
Practical Dermatopathology The product with excellent quality and well organised and I hope all ur
product is similar to this book which I think is one of best three deematopatholgy books.
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Very slick, Very cool Lightweight, quick, easy-to-use, easy-to-assimilate atlas that gives you the info you need in a streamlined fashion. Absolutely love this book.
Great for dermatology residents!! This book is very concise and to the point. Has the most important and characteristic conditions. Great book to carry around (vs. the other very large dermatopathology books).
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