Blistering Skin Diseases (Softcover)

Description

This book is useful for dermatologists in training and in practice, physicians working in emergency departments, candidates for post-registration qualifications, general practitioners and medical students.

Reviews

Eminently suitable for dermatologists and trainees, and a useful addition to any departmental library. Overall, a nice, clear and excellently illustrated read
Dermatology in Practice

Key features

• Covers the clinical features, differential diagnoses, laboratory findings and therapeutic strategy
• Compares the relative urgency of the condition presented – useful for emergency physicians
• Superb quality colour illustrations

Contents

1. Overview of blistering skin diseases
2. Diagnostic Methods for blistering skin diseases
3. Autoimmune blistering skin diseases
4. Heritable blistering skin diseases
5. Inflammation-mediated blistering skin diseases
6. Metabolic blistering skin diseases
7. Infection-mediated blistering skin diseases
8. Palmar plantar pustular dermatoses

• Physician resources
• Patient resources
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary
• Index

Author

Lawrence S. Chan, MD: Professor of Dermatology and Head of Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, USA Now in softcover, this book aims to provide the definitive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of various blistering skin diseases. It offers the reader a succinct clinical description for quick recognition of different types of blistering diseases and their relative urgency. It also provides information on the clinical features of blistering skin diseases, differential diagnoses, laboratory findings, and therapeutic strategy. There is also a section on pathogenesis to enhance the readers understanding on the molecular events underlying the blistering disease process.