The Melanocytic Proliferations – A Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions
A Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions
Samenvatting
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 includes over 300 new, additional color images.
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<p>Preface, viii</p>
<p>Disclosure, ix</p>
<p>About the Companion Website, x</p>
<p>1 An Approach to the Clinical Diagnosis of Melanoma, Its Precursors, and Its Clinical Mimics, 1</p>
<p>2 Freckles and Lentigines, 44</p>
<p>3 Benign Acquired Nevi, 65</p>
<p>4 Dermal Dendritic Melanocytic Proliferations/Dermal Melanocytoses, 85</p>
<p>5 Spitz Nevus, 107</p>
<p>6 Combined Nevus, Deep Penetrating Nevus, Plexiform Spindle Cell Nevus, and Borderline Tumors of the Deep Penetrating Nevus Variant, 164</p>
<p>7 Recurrent Melanocytic Nevus, 175</p>
<p>8 Congenital Nevi, 187</p>
<p>9 Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi, De Novo Intradermal Epithelioid and Lentiginous Melanocytic Dysplasias, and Nevi at Specific Anatomic Sites, 201</p>
<p>10 Melanoma, 254</p>
<p>11 Conjunctival Melanocytic Proliferations, 365</p>
<p>12 Use of Adjunctive Immunoperoxidase, Molecular, and Ultrastructural Studies in the Diagnosis of Melanocytic Proliferations, 380</p>
<p>13 Biology of Melanoma, 412</p>
<p>14 Borderline Melanocytic Proliferation, 443</p>
<p>15 Dermatoscopic Diagnosis of Melanoma, 467</p>
<p>16 Reflectance Confocal Microscopy, 474</p>
<p>17 Therapy of Melanoma, 488</p>
<p>Index, 510 </p>

