An Atlas of Hair Pathology with Clinical Correlations

Description

As a primer, the book reviews very basic information, including hair anatomy and the “nuts and bolts” of processing and evaluating pathology specimens. The authors assume that the reader knows very little about hair disease or hair pathology, and so a step-by-step approach is utilized.

As an atlas, the book is rich in photographs demonstrating both basic and advanced histological features of hair disease.

As a reference, the book includes the most up-to-date information about the pathology of hair disease, presented with a synopsis format. Basic clinical features are reviewed to provide clinical-pathologic correlation.

• Over 550 high quality color photographs
• Both basic and advanced histological aspects
• Clinical correlation to the pathology
• A step-by-step visual approach to interpretation
• Succinct explanations and descriptions
• Suggestions for therapy
• Tables, boxes, and checklists to summarize information, particularly for pitfalls to be avoided
• Key references for each section
• A glossary of hair pathology terms

NEW Contents:

• 'Counting Hairs': How to Do It
• Psoriatic Alopecia
• Neoplastic Disorders Causing Alopecia
• Hereditary Disorders with Alopecia
• Radiation Induced Alopecia
• Glossary of Hair Pathology Terms

REVIEW OF THE FIRST EDITION

"Dr Sperling has long been known for his hair pathology expertise and his Atlas of Hair Pathology also reveals his skills as a clinician. The visual components cross in a well-balanced way between disease morphology and pathology. Normal follicular anatomy is covered in detail, in particular the technical processing needed to produce the sections for horizontal viewing ... I cannot imagine any dermatopathologist not wanting to possess this atlas."
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Table of contents

1. Normal hair anatomy and architecture
2. Epidemiology
3. ‘Counting hairs’: how to do it
4. Specimen acquisition, handling and processing
5. Evaluating and describing transverse (horizontal) sections
6. Classification of hair disease
7. Distinctive or critical histological features and associated diseases
8. Clinical correlation
9. Senescent balding (‘senile alopecia’)
10. Androgenetic alopecia
11. Telogen effluvium
12. Trichotillomania
13. Traction alopecia
14. Postoperative (pressure-induced) alopecia
15. Temporal triangular alopecia
16. Alopecia areata
17. Psoriatic alopecia
18. Syphilitic alopecia
19. Non-scarring alopecia from systemic lupus erythematosus
20. Loose anagen hair syndrome
21. Central centrifugal scarring alopecia
22. Lichen planopilaris
23. Frontal fibrosing alopecia
24. Neoplastic disorders causing alopecia
25. Alopecia in the immunosuppressed patient
26. Hereditary disorders with alopecia
27. Radiation induced alopecia
28. Chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus (discoid lupus erythematosus)
29. Brocq’s alopecia (pseudopelade of Brocq) and ‘burnt out’ scarring alopecia
30. Acne keloidalis (folliculitis keloidalis)
31. Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp (perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens)
32. Tufted folliculitis
33. Tinea capitis
34. Aplasia cutis congenital of the scalp
35. Overview of hair shaft disorders
36. Glossary of hair pathology terms

Authors

Leonard C. Sperling, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, MD, COL, MC USA, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Chair of Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Shawn Cowper: MD Department of Dermatology Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Eleanor Knopp: MD Department of Dermatology Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA