Atlas of Dermatopathology: Practical Differential Diagnosis by Clinicopathologic Pattern

Improve your dermatological diagnostic accuracy

The most efficient method in the diagnosis of skin diseases is the combined validation of clinical and histopathological features. The results of biopsy investigation in isolation don t always yield answers but when considered together, the clinical pattern and the histopathology, then diagnosis can become clearer. In this process the diagnostic impact of histopathology may be decisive or just confirmative to the clinical differential diagnosis. The structure of the book follows a basic approach to morphology, which is overall orientation at scanning magnification first, then identifying a prototypic pattern, and finally finding the essential diagnostic clue(s) under high power magnification.

Atlas of Dermatopathology: Practical Differential Diagnosis by Clinicopathologic Pattern of Inflammatory Diseases of the Skin provides top quality images to correlate clinical presentations with histopathologic features. Annotated images highlight subtle indications that can clinch the diagnosis. Concise, bullet–pointed text provides further context.

Written by internationally renowned authors, the book is ideal for anyone involved in the diagnosis of skin disease.

Preface ix

Abbreviations xi

Introduction xiii

1 Horny Layer 1

Reduced granular layer

Prominent granular layer

2 Epidermis 15

Eczematous

Acute

Subacute

Chronic

Pruriginous

Psoriasiform

Bullous, acantholytic

Pustular

Degenerative

Necrotic

Ballooning

Koilocytic

Atrophic

3 Dermal epidermal Junction (Interface) 109

Lichenoid

Subepidermal blistering

4 Dermis 133

Edema

Infiltrates

Non–granulomatous

Granulomatous

Connective tissue

Sclerosis

Perforation and extrusion

5 Vessels 221

Intravascular coagulation

Vasculitis

Small vessel

Medium–sized vessel

Medium and large

Localized

Arteritis

Vasculopathic changes

6 Subcutis 265

Panniculitis, septal

Panniculitis, lobular

Fat necrosis

7 Deposition and Storage 281

Foreign bodies

Lipids

Mucin

Amyloid

Calcium and bone

8 Adnexae 321

Pilosebaceous unit

Hair

Hair follicles not reduced

Hair follicles reduced

Index 351