SPITZ's Genodermatoses. A Full Color Clinical Guide to Genetic Skin Disorders

Specially designed for dermatologists, pediatricians, and family physicians, this user-friendly guide to genetic skin disorders is an ideal resource for both board preparation and clinical practice. To help make learning a difficult subject more efficient and effective, the text takes a user-friendly, visual approach, featuring more than 300 full-color illustrations and a format designed for maximum retention of content.

• 20-30% new material -- update genetic mutations, pathogenesis, prognosis, clinical pearls, management
• Add 5 new entities
• Update clinical photos under line drawings (~ 20% new)
• Boxed features highlight clinical pearls and add insight and breadth to the material
• Bulleted text summarizing the patterns of inheritance, prenatal diagnosis, incidence, age of presentation, pathogenesis, key features, differential diagnosis, laboratory findings, management, and prognosis
• Each syndrome is presented in easy-to-read, two-page spreads, allowing you to read material in depth or at-a-glance
• Full body diagrams and clinical photographs of each syndrome

Joel L. Spitz MD

Associate in Clinical Dermatology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; Assistant in Dermatology, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Jennifer L Hand

Jackson Turbeville