Dermatoscopy and Skin Cancer

Dermatoscopy and SkinCancer is a handbook to help dermatologists, dermatoscopists and GPs easilydifferentiate between benign and malignant tumours, leading to fewerunnecessary biopsies and earlier treatment of cancers.Based around two easy to follow algorithms, Chaos and Clues and Pigment without Pr [...]
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Dermatoscopy and SkinCancer is a handbook to help dermatologists, dermatoscopists and GPs easilydifferentiate between benign and malignant tumours, leading to fewerunnecessary biopsies and earlier treatment of cancers.Based around two easy to follow algorithms, Chaos and Clues and Pigment without Prediction, the bookshows all dermatoscope users how to confidently diagnose skin lesions earlierand with greater precision.In addition,this handbook also provides coverage of:* the microanatomy of the skin* specimen processing and histopathology* the language of dermatoscopy to help name anddefine structures and patterns* approaches to skin examination andphotodocumentation* revised pattern analysis as an additionaldiagnostic algorithm* dermatoscopic features of common and significantlesions.Using hundreds of high quality images the authors provide adetailed algorithmic approach to assessing the skin - an approach that has beensuccessfully taught to thousands of doctors around the world.