Practical Dermatopathology: Text with CD-ROM

Based on Dr. Rapini's popular Atlas of Dermatopathology, this practical resource delivers expert guidance on the evaluation and diagnosis of skin biopsies. It lists the important clinical and histological features and variations for common and unusual diseases, highlights their most characteristic features, and provides list of differential diagnosis for clinical and pathologic changes. A user-friendly format—combined with a wealth of full-color illustrations and extensive cross referencing—make this the ideal bench side companion for quick reference and more accurate diagnoses. And, a bonus CD-ROM provides all of the book's images for use in PowerPoint®.

• Presents over 700 full-color illustrations—with leader lines pointing out key pathologic findings—that depict a wide range of conditions.
• Provides differential diagnosis lists of clinical and pathologic findings. Clinical lists are based on location, symptoms, duration, arrangement, morphology, and color. Pathologic lists include major categories such as epidermal changes, dermal changes, and cell types.
• Features extensive cross-referencing of differential diagnosis lists by finding and disease, enabling readers to locate information quickly.
• Includes a bonus CD-ROM featuring all of the book's images for use in PowerPoint®.

Rapini (dermatology, U. of Texas Medical School; MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas) presents a practical resource text for pathologists, dermatologists, and dermatopathologists, based on the now out-of-print Atlas of Dermatopathology which he co-authored in 1988. Intended as a supplement to existing textbooks of dermatopathology, the text provides a practical approach to the evaluation and diagnosis of skin biopsies. It lists the important clinical and histological features and variations for common and unusual diseases, highlights their most characteristic features, and provides 150 extensively cross-referenced lists of differential diagnosis for clinical and pathological changes. The text includes 700-plus full-color illustrations; an accompanying CD-ROM features all of the book's images for use in PowerPoint. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Barbara M. Egbert, MD(VA Palo Alto Health Care System)
Description:This concise book is meant to be used as a supplement to existing textbooks of dermatopathology. It is unique in that it has extensive lists of differential diagnoses of both pathologic findings and clinical findings. This edition is an update of Atlas of Dermatopathology (Mosby, 1988).
Purpose:The author's purpose was to produce a practical guide to dermatopathology which included numerous lists of differential diagnoses meant to be used in conjunction with an existing textbook of dermatopathology. The author meets these worthy objectives.
Audience:Written primarily for practicing physicians in the fields of pathology and dermatology, it is more useful to general pathologists and general dermatologists as a beginning in the evaluation of a slide. Residents in dermatology and pathology would find this book useful as a concise text. Dermatopathologists would probably immediately use a complete text of dermatopathology. The author is an excellent and well known dermatopathologist.
Features:Opening with extensive lists of differential diagnoses, the book then continues with inflammatory and neoplastic entities in dermatopathology. The use of differential diagnoses of both clinical features and pathologic features is innovative. There are numerous excellent illustrations. Because it is concise, the book does not include a number of entities, such as normal histology, EM, hair, nails, oral mucosa, pathogenesis, and treatment. The number of references is very small.
Assessment:This book has many excellent features and would be useful to general pathologists and dermatologists as well as residents in those fields. This is one of the few books that includes pathologic and clinical differential diagnoses and is one of the few concise texts. The photomicrographs are of excellent quality. A CD-ROM is included, so that some of the material could be used in lectures.