Dermatology Diagnosis and Management for Clinicians: Evidence-Based Textbook Covering Cutaneous Pathophysiology, Dermoscopy, & Targeted Therapeutics for ABD Candidates - Couverture souple

Collado MD, Conrad S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798187424689

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Built for the clinician who encounters the lesion, makes the call, and owns the outcome, this reference connects cutaneous pathophysiology to the diagnostic and management decisions made in clinic, on the ward, and in the emergency department. It moves from skin biology and the dermatologic examination through the full range of inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, and systemic skin disease — and into the treatment choices that determine whether the diagnosis is made today or missed for months. Dermoscopic criteria, evidence-graded management algorithms, and the Dermatologic Mimicry Navigation System turn pattern recognition into clinical action at every decision point.

What This Book Puts in Your Hands

• Navigate the mimicry traps that delay diagnosis — 33 indexed look-alike pairs, each with a one-line diagnostic anchor that separates the benign from the dangerous before biopsy results return.
• Triage pigmented lesions with dermoscopic precision — ABCDE and EFG criteria, ugly duckling detection, and the vascular-pattern signatures that catch nodular and amelanotic melanoma when classic algorithms fail.
• Stage and risk-stratify cutaneous malignancy — Breslow-driven surgical margins, SLNB indications informed by MSLT-II, and the immunotherapy and targeted-therapy landscape for advanced melanoma, SCC, BCC, and Merkel cell carcinoma.
• Select biologics by pathway — IL-23 and IL-17 inhibitors for psoriasis, dupilumab and JAK inhibitors for atopic dermatitis, with paradoxical-reaction recognition built into the prescribing logic.
• Recognize the skin as a systemic alarm — paraneoplastic dermatoses with malignancy-screening protocols, retiform purpura as a vascular-occlusion emergency, and the nail, hair, and pigmentary findings that diagnose endocrine, hepatic, and hematologic disease before the labs return.
• Manage dermatologic emergencies from the first hour — SCORTEN-scored SJS/TEN with pharmacogenomic prevention, erythroderma stabilization with Sézary exclusion, and the bradykinin-vs-histamine distinction that determines whether angioedema responds to epinephrine.

Open it before your next clinic — the diagnostic decisions every skin patient depends on, in one reference.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798187424689
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 349
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible