Dermoscopy in General Dermatology

This lavishly illustrated guide from experts will enable practitioners to get the most out of dermoscopy forinvestigations and treatments in general dermatology.

Preface Contributors Introduction PART I: INFLAMMATORY DISEASES 1. Papulosquamous disorders Aimilios Lallas and Enzo Errichetti 2. Other papulonodular disorders Enzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, and Dimitrios Ioannides 3. Granulomatous noninfectious disorders Enzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas 4. Connective tissue diseases Enzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas 5. Facial dermatoses Enzo Errichetti, Feroze Kaliyadan, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, Giuseppe Micali, and Aimilios Lallas 6. Erythemas Nicola di Meo, Paola Corneli, and Iris Zalaudek 7. Hyperpigmented dermatoses Enzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas 8. Hypopigmented dermatoses Enzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, and Dimitrios Ioannides 9. Miscellaneous Enzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas PART II: INFILTRATIVE DISEASES 10. Lymphomas and pseudolymphomas Zoe Apalla, Aimilios Lallas, and Enzo Errichetti 11. Other infiltrative conditions Enzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas PART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES 12. Bacterial and parasitic infections Ignacio Gómez Martín, Balachandra S. Ankad, Enzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, Dimitrios Ioannides, and Pedro Zaballos 13. Mycoses Dionysios Lekkas, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, and Giuseppe Micali 14. Viral infections Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, and Giuseppe Micali PART IV: HAIR AND NAIL DISEASES 15. Hair disorders (trichoscopy) Adriana Rakowska and Lidia Rudnicka 16. Nail disorders (onychoscopy) Michela Starace, Aurora Alessandrini, and Bianca Maria Piraccini PART V: SKIN OF COLOR 17. Disorders of pigmentation Sidharth Sonthalia, Atula Gupta, Abhijeet Kumar Jha, Rashmi Sarkar, and Balachandra Suryakant Ankad 18. Inflammatory and infectious conditions Vishal Gupta, Sidharth Sonthalia, Yasmeen Jabeen Bhat, Sonali Langar, and Manal Bosseila 19. Hair and nail disorders Arshdeep, Mathapati Shivamurthy Sukesh, Prashant Agarwal, Deepak Jakhar, and Sidharth Sonthalia 20. Monitoring of therapeutic response and other applications Sidharth Sonthalia, Tejinder Kaur, and Sakshi Srivastava APPENDICES: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES I. Erythematosquamous macules/papules on the trunk and/or extremities II. Erythematous macules/plaques on the face III. Palmar/plantar keratoderma IV. Sclero-atrophic patches on the trunk and/or extremities V. Hyperpigmented macules/papules on the trunk and/or extremities VI. Hypopigmented macules on the trunk and/or extremities VII. Itchy papules/nodules on the trunk and/or extremities VIII. Inflammatory papules along Blaschko’s lines IX. Purpuric macules/patches X. Nonscarring alopecia XI. Scarring alopecia XII. Hair casts XIII. Onycholysis XIV. Pitting of the nail plate Index

Aimilios Lallas, MD, MSc, PhD, is a dermatologist at the First Department of Dermatology, Aristotle University of Thessaloníki, Greece; he has published extensively on the use of newer technologies such as dermoscopy and reflectance confocal microscopy to investigate and monitor dermatologic disease. Enzo Errichetti, MD, MSc, DVD, is a Consultant Dermatologists and Venereologists at the Institute of Dermatology, "Santa Maria della Misericordia" University Hospital of Udine, Italy; his main research area is represented by the use of dermoscopy in the diagnosis and monitoring of non-tumoral dermatological diseases.