Dermoscopy: An Illustrated Self-Assessment Guide

R Johr, W Stolz,
Soft cover, 426 pp., 2010.

Dermoscopy: An Illustrated Self-Assessment Guide is a case-based visual guide to learning dermoscopy complete with practical self-assessment. With 300 full-color illustrations of 191 separate cases commonly encountered in general dermatologic practice, this title offers a unique check-list methodology for learning how to use dermoscopy to diagnose benign and malignant pigmented and non-pigmented skin lesions.

For each of the 191 cases, you will find a series of high-quality full-color clinical and dermoscopic images, each with a short history. Every case is followed by five true-or-false questions along with three check boxes to test your knowledge acquisition and decision-making ability on "Risk, Diagnosis, and Disposition." Turn the page and the answers to the questions are provided in a unique, memorable manner in which the dermoscopic images are presented again. Circles, stars, boxes, and arrows appear in the image pointing out the important dermoscopic criteria of each case.

Features:

• Cases are taken from lesions of the scalp, face, nose, lips, ears, trunk, extremities, palms, soles, nails and genitalia
• The global features and local criteria for each case are highlighted, which the authors have found to be a valuable teaching tool
• The concepts of clinico-dermoscopic correlation, dermoscopic-pathologic correlation and dermoscopic differential diagnosis are employed throughout the book
• Each case includes a discussion of all of its salient features in a quick-read outline style and ends with a series of dermoscopic and/or clinical pearls based on the authors' years of experience treating skin cancers
• Key dermoscopic principles are re-emphasized throughout the book to enhance the reader's understanding and assimilation of the teaching points
• 300 full-color illustrations - 95 melanomas plus important simulators

Dermoscopy: An Illustrated Self-Assessment Guide offers a simple, innovative, and highly-visual approach to learning the general principles, terminology, and specific criteria of dermoscopy to enhance your ability to utilize this powerful tool, which is both tissue sparing and potentially lifesaving.