
Dermatopathology
- 3rd Edition - May 22, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Dirk M. Elston, Tammie C. Ferringer, Christine Ko, Steven Peckham, Whitney A. High, David J. DiCaudo
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 2 8 0 - 2
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Request a sales quoteOffering a unique combination of expert online lectures, vast image collections both in print and online, and an easy-to-use print atlas, Dermatopathology, 3rd Edition, helps you master the complexities of this challenging and fast-changing subspecialty. Dr. Elston and his colleagues make dermatopathology easier to understand, leading you to efficient, accurate diagnoses of the most important common dermatologic findings seen in practice.
- Covers the essentials of dermatopathology using an enjoyable, easily understood approach and a consistent chapter template that includes key points and pearls.
- Features 27 lectures and 2,000 high-quality slides online – more than 8 hours of targeted teaching that take you through the must-know elements of each topic in a dynamic, engaging manner.
- Offers extensive, visually stunning image atlases both in print and online, including an extensive infectious disease atlas with 2,500 slides, a soft tissue tumor atlas with 300 images, a lymphoma atlas, and more.
- Includes abundant high-resolution histopathology examples with labels and pointers highlighting key aspects of each slide, providing additional clarity.
- The text has been expanded by over 70 pages in print, with over 130 new images, and 50 newer entities ranging from cutaneous collagenous vasculopathy to EBV+ mucocutaneous ulcer.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- Cover image
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Online Lectures and Atlas Materials
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Dedications
- 1 The basics
- Glossary of terms
- Normal skin anatomy
- Other “special” stains
- Further reading
- 2 Benign tumors and cysts of the epidermis
- Benign acanthomas
- Cysts
- Further reading
- 3 Malignant tumors of the epidermis
- Actinic keratosis
- Bowen disease
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Keratoacanthoma
- Basal cell carcinoma (BCC)
- Paget disease
- Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma
- Further reading
- 4 Pilar and sebaceous neoplasms
- Pilar neoplasms
- Sebaceous neoplasms
- Further reading
- 5 Sweat gland neoplasms
- Cylindroma (turban tumor)
- Spiradenoma
- Spiradenocarcinoma
- Syringocystadenoma papilliferum
- Hidradenoma papilliferum
- Papillary digital carcinoma (aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma)
- Mucinous carcinoma
- Syringoma
- Microcystic adnexal carcinoma
- Hidrocystoma
- Endocrine mucin-producing sweat duct carcinoma of the eyelid
- Mixed tumor (chondroid syringoma)
- Cutaneous myoepithelioma
- Malignant mixed tumor (malignant chondroid syringoma)
- Acrospiromas
- Malignant acrospiroma (porocarcinoma, malignant poroma)
- Syringofibroadenoma of Mascaro
- Papillary “eccrine” adenoma (tubular apocrine adenoma)
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma
- Eccrine angiomatous hamartoma
- Benign intraductal adenoma of the nipple
- Supernumerary nipple (polythelia)
- Further reading
- 6 Melanocytic neoplasms
- Solar lentigo
- Melanotic macule
- Benign melanocytic nevus
- Nevus of Ota/nevus of Ito
- Mongolian spot
- Malignant melanoma
- Further reading
- 7 Interface dermatitis
- Lichenoid interface dermatitis
- Vacuolar interface dermatitis
- Still's disease
- Further reading
- 8 Psoriasiform and spongiotic dermatitis
- Psoriasis
- Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN)
- Mycosis fungoides
- Syphilis
- Necrolytic erythemas/nutritional deficiency dermatitis
- Granular parakeratosis
- Porokeratosis
- Acute spongiotic dermatitis
- Seborrheic dermatitis
- Subacute spongiotic dermatitis
- Chronic dermatitis (lichen simplex chronicus)
- Pityriasis rosea
- Spongiotic pigmented purpuric eruption (PPE)
- Stasis dermatitis
- Spongiotic dermatitis with intraepidermal eosinophils
- Zoon balanitis
- Pityriasis rubra pilaris
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Further reading
- 9 Blistering diseases
- Subcorneal vesiculobullous disorders
- Intraepidermal vesiculobullous disorders
- Subepidermal vesiculobullous disorders: pauciinflammatory subepidermal conditions
- Inflammatory subepidermal conditions
- Friction blisters
- Further reading
- 10 Granulomatous and histiocytic diseases
- Granuloma annulare
- Actinic granuloma
- Necrobiosis lipoidica
- Rheumatoid nodule
- Lupus miliaris disseminatus faciei (LMDF: acne agminata)
- Sarcoidosis
- Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma (NXG)
- Xanthogranuloma
- Reticulohistiocytic granuloma (solitary reticulohistiocytoma)
- Rosai–Dorfman disease (sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis (histiocytosis X)
- Xanthomas
- Gout
- Foreign-body granuloma
- Further reading
- 11 Inflammatory vascular diseases
- Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV)
- Neutrophilic dermatoses
- Perivascular lymphoid infiltrates
- Lymphoid vasculitis
- Insect bite
- Perniosis
- Occlusive vascular diseases
- Noninflammatory purpura
- Further reading
- 12 Genodermatoses
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Ichthyosis vulgaris
- Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch–Sulzberger syndrome)
- Mastocytosis
- Epidermolytic ichthyosis (bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma)
- Lipoid proteinosis (hyalinosis cutis et mucosae, Urbach–Wiethe disease)
- Goltz syndrome (focal dermal hypoplasia, Goltz–Gorlin syndrome)
- Dowling–Degos disease (reticulated pigmented anomaly of the flexures)
- Galli–Galli disease
- Further reading
- 13 Alterations in collagen and elastin
- Lichen sclerosus (et atrophicus)
- Chronic radiation dermatitis
- Morphea/scleroderma
- Sclerodermoid graft-versus-host disease
- Eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulman syndrome)
- Elastosis perforans serpiginosa
- Reactive perforating collagenosis
- Scar and keloid
- Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis
- Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
- Ochronosis
- Colloid milium
- Anetoderma
- Atrophoderma
- Connective tissue nevus
- Aplasia cutis congenita
- Further reading
- 14 Metabolic disorders
- Mucinoses
- Amyloidosis
- Cutaneous calcification
- Gout
- Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP)
- Colloid milium
- Mucocele
- Oxalosis
- Further reading
- 15 Disorders of skin appendages
- Noninflammatory alopecia
- Inflammatory nonscarring alopecia
- Cicatricial alopecia
- Acute Langerhans cell histiocytosis (histiocytosis X)
- Miliaria
- Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Pseudocyst of the auricle
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Further reading
- 16 Panniculitis
- Septal panniculitis
- Lobular panniculitis
- Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn
- Traumatic fat necrosis (“mobile encapsulated lipoma”)
- Subcutaneous panniculitis-like lymphoma
- Further reading
- 17 Bacterial, spirochete, and protozoan infections
- Bacterial diseases
- Spirochete-mediated diseases
- Protozoan diseases
- Further reading
- 18 Fungal infections
- Tinea
- Tinea versicolor
- Candidiasis
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Cryptococcosis
- Blastomycosis
- Paracoccidioides infection (South American “blastomycosis”)
- Histoplasmosis
- Lobomycosis (keloidal blastomycosis)
- Sporotrichosis
- Mycetomas
- Tinea nigra
- Phaeohyphomycosis
- Chromomycosis (chromoblastomycosis)
- Zygomycosis
- Hyalohyphomycosis (including aspergillosis and fusariosis)
- Protothecosis
- Rhinosporidiosis
- Further reading
- 19 Viral infections, helminths, and arthropods
- Viral infections
- Flukes, tapeworms, and roundworms
- Arthropods
- Further reading
- 20 Fibrous tumors
- Dermatofibroma
- Multinucleate cell angiohistiocytoma
- Adult myofibroma
- Juvenile myofibroma
- Dermatomyofibroma
- Fibromatosis
- Infantile myofibromatosis
- Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis
- Scar
- Keloid
- Metaplastic synovial cyst
- Fibrous hamartoma of infancy
- Infantile digital fibroma (inclusion body fibroma)
- Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath
- Giant cell tumor of the soft tissue
- Elastofibroma dorsi
- Sclerotic fibroma
- Pleomorphic fibroma
- Collagenous fibroma (desmoplastic fibroblastoma)
- Nuchal-type fibroma (collagenosis nuchae)
- Angiofibromas
- Nodular fasciitis
- Intravascular fasciitis
- Ischemic fasciitis (atypical decubital fibroplasia)
- Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma
- Ossifying fibromyxoid tumor of soft parts
- Borderline tumors
- Malignant tumors
- Further reading
- 21 Tumors of fat, muscle, cartilage, and bone
- Fat
- Muscle
- Cartilage and Bone
- Further reading
- 22 Neural tumors
- Neurofibroma
- Schwannoma (neurilemmoma)
- Neuromas
- Supernumerary digit (rudimentary polydactyly)
- Merkel cell carcinoma (primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin, trabecular carcinoma)
- Granular cell tumor
- Neurothekeoma
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) (neurofibrosarcoma, malignant schwannoma)
- Cutaneous ganglioneuroma
- Perineurioma
- Glial heterotopia (nasal glioma)
- Meningeal heterotopia (rudimentary meningocele)
- Meningioma
- Neuroblastoma
- Further reading
- 23 Vascular tumors
- Angiokeratoma
- Lymphangioma
- Nevus flammeus
- Angioma serpiginosum
- Venous lake
- Glomus tumor
- Pyogenic granuloma
- Bacillary angiomatosis
- Cherry angioma
- Infantile hemangioma
- Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia
- Kimura disease
- Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia of Masson (IPEH)
- Arteriovenous malformation (arteriovenous hemangioma)
- Targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma (hobnail hemangioma)
- Eccrine angiomatous hamartoma
- Glomeruloid hemangioma
- Microvenular hemangioma
- Tufted angioma (angioblastoma)
- Myopericytoma (perivascular myoid tumor)
- PEComa (perivascular epithelioid cell tumor)
- Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma
- Pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor (PHAT)
- Hemangiopericytoma
- Spindle cell hemangioma (spindle cell hemangioendothelioma)
- Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
- Retiform hemangioendothelioma
- Angiosarcoma
- Atypical vascular lesion (AVL)
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Further reading
- 24 Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, NK-cell lymphoma, and myeloid leukemia
- Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and NK-cell lymphoma
- Further reading
- 25 B-cell lymphoma and lymphocytic leukemia
- Cutaneous B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders
- Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
- Further reading
- 26 Metastatic tumors and simulators
- Breast carcinoma
- Lung carcinoma
- Renal carcinoma
- Colon carcinoma
- Ovarian carcinoma
- Signet-ring carcinoma
- Thyroid carcinoma
- Prostate carcinoma
- Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma
- Meningioma
- Lesions that mimic metastatic carcinoma
- Further reading
- Appendix 1 Dermatopathology mnemonics
- Appendix 2 Skin ultrastructure
- 1 Desmosome
- 2 Langerhans cell (with Birbeck granules)
- 3 Premelanosome
- 4 Tonofibrils
- 5 Eosinophil
- 6 Mast cell
- 7 Merkel cell
- Appendix 3 External agents and artifacts
- 1 Electrocautery
- 2 Gelfoam
- 3 Aluminum chloride
- 4 Monsel's solution (ferric subsulfate)
- 5 Triamcinolone
- 6 Splinter
- 7 Suture
- 8 Amalgam
- 9 Calcium hydroxylapatite
- 10 Hyaluronic acid
- 11 Poly-L-lactic acid
- 12 Silicone granuloma
- 13 Argyria
- Further reading
- Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: May 22, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 552
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780702072802
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Dirk M. Elston
Dirk M. Elston is Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USATF
Tammie C. Ferringer
Affiliations and expertise
Section Head and Fellowship Director of Dermatopathology, Departments of Dermatology and Laboratory Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USACK
Christine Ko
Christine Ko is Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, USASP
Steven Peckham
Affiliations and expertise
Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX, USAWH
Whitney A. High
Whitney A. High is Associate Professor, Dermatology and Pathology, Director of Dermatopathology (Dermatology) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Dermatology and Pathology, Director of Dermatopathology (Dermatology), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USADD
David J. DiCaudo
David J. DiCaudo works in the Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA