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The Melanocytic Proliferations : A Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowson, A. Neil, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melanocytes.
- Melanoma.
- Mole (Dermatology).
- Nevi and Melanomas.
- Epithelial Cells.
- Neuroendocrine Tumors.
- Medicine.
- Skin Diseases.
- Neoplasms by Site.
- Health Occupations.
- Cells.
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type.
- Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases.
- Neuroectodermal Tumors.
- Neoplasms.
- Anatomy.
- Disease.
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal.
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue.
- Nevus.
- Pathology.
- Skin Neoplasms.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nevi and Melanomas.
- Epithelial Cells.
- Neuroendocrine Tumors.
- Medicine.
- Skin Diseases.
- Neoplasms by Site.
- Health Occupations.
- Cells.
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type.
- Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases.
- Neuroectodermal Tumors.
- Neoplasms.
- Anatomy.
- Disease.
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal.
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue.
- Melanoma.
- Nevus.
- Pathology.
- Melanocytes.
- Skin Neoplasms.
- Local Subjects:
- Melanocytes.
- Melanoma.
- Mole (Dermatology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (532 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A thorough updating of this best-selling textbook, The Melanocytic Proliferations is the most comprehensive single-source treatment of the subject available. Presenting an experience- and evidence-based review of pigmented lesions encompassing the biology, diagnosis, and treatment of melanocytic proliferations and disorders, including malignant melanoma, this fully revised second edition contains three completely new chapters: Staging of Melanoma, Dermoscopy and its relationship to the histomorphology of select pigmented lesions, and Confocal microscopy of melanoma subtypes. The text in
- Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Disclosure; About the Companion Website; Chapter 1: An Approach to the Clinical Diagnosis of Melanoma, Its Precursors, and Its Clinical Mimics; Introduction; Incidence and risk; Precursors to melanoma; Approach to the patient; Initial encounter; History; Physical examination; Approach to the individual pigmented lesion; Summary; Atlas of Clinical Lesions Correlating to Various Entities Discussed in the Text; Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines; Chapter 3: Benign Acquired Nevi
- Chapter 4: Dermal Dendritic Melanocytic Proliferations/Dermal MelanocytosesChapter 5: Spitz Nevus; Chapter 6: Combined Nevus, Deep Penetrating Nevus, and Plexiform Spindle Cell Nevus; Chapter 7: Recurrent Melanocytic Nevus; Chapter 8: Congenital Nevi; Chapter 9: Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi, De Novo Intraepidermal Epithelioid and Lentinginous Melanocytic Dysplasias, and Nevi at Specific Anatomic Sites; Chapter 10: Melanoma; Chapter 11: Conjunctival Melanocytic Proliferations; Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines; Freckles (ephelides); Clinical features; Histopathology (Figure 2.1)
- Differential diagnosisDowling-Degos disease; Clinical features; Histopathology; Lentigines: Lentigo simplex and the lentiginoses; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.3A, B); Mucosal lentigines; Labial melanotic macule; Genital lentigines; Vulvar and penile melanosis; Acral lentigines; Melanotic macule of the nail matrix; Actinic (solar) lentigo; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11); Differential diagnosis; Pigmented actinic keratosis (Figure 2.14); PUVA-induced lentigines (PUVA therapy/tanning beds/xeroderma pigmentosum); Clinical features
- Histopathology (Figure 2.15)Large cell acanthoma; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.12A, B, 2.13A, B); Becker nevus; Clinical features; Histology (Figure 2.16); Ink spot lentigo; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.17, 2.18); Melasma; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.19, 2.20A, B); Pathogenesis; Treatment; Albright syndrome; Clinical features; Histology; The café-au-lait macule; Clinical features (Table 2.2); Histopathology (Figures 2.21, 2.22, 2.23; Table 2.2); Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.24, 2.25A, B)
- Chapter 3: Benign Acquired NeviBroad overview of clinical features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1); Broad overview of the histologic features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired junctional nevus (Figures 3.1, 3.2; Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired compound nevus (Figure 3.3; Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired dermal nevus (Figures 3.4 through 3.10; Table 3.1); Other acquired benign nevi; Balloon cell nevus; Cockarde nevus; Nevus spilus; Problematic topics in the realm of the common acquired nevus
- Melanocytic nevi with focal atypical epithelioid cell components/inverted type A nevus/clonal nevi
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-118-48893-8
- 1-118-48895-4
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