Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management

Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management serves as an easy-to-consult, short, and schematic reference providing guidelines for diagnosing and managing melanoma in the context of various clinical scenarios. In the daily routine of a busy clinician, there is a need for schematic reference tools that allow quick consultation for immediate decisions. Melanoma is a deadly disease that should be promptly managed following precise and evidence-based guidelines.

The guide contains many schematics and figures, vastly outnumbering the pages dedicated to text. This guide follows the sequence of a real clinical setting, going from the first screening visit to the final stages of terminal patients.

Provides a quick-access resource for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma patients at all stagesIncludes succinct guidelines, schematics, and figures for busy cliniciansConcludes with a section addressing special clinical situations, including melanoma in pregnancy, pediatric melanoma, familial melanoma and MPM, atypical Spitz tumor, occult primary melanoma, and the histopathologic gray zone

1. Melanoma epidemiology and risk factors
2. Diagnosis of primary melanoma
3. Staging of melanoma patients
4. Therapy of melanoma
5. Follow-up of disease-free patients
6. Special clinical situations