Dermoscopy in Darker Skin eBook

Description

The textbook “Dermoscopy in Darker Skin” is an illustrated guide to the practical use of this diagnostic tool in the types of skin prevalent predominantly in the Indian subcontinent

This book comprises of 9 sections such as basics of dermoscopy, disorders of pigmentation, papulosquamous disorders, infectious disorders, autoimmune and granulomatous disorders, skin tumors, onychoscopy, trichoscopy, and miscellaneous, which include introduction to dermoscopy, types of dermoscope, basic patterns on dermoscopy, melasma, nonmelasma facial melanoses, other disorders of hyperpigmentation, vitiligo and other disorders of hypopigmentation, differentiation of nevus depigmentosus, ash leaf macules and nevus anemicus, papulosquamous disorders, infectious disorders, autoimmune diseases, dermoscopy of granulomatous disorders, benign and premalignant tumors of skin, dermoscopy of malignant cutaneous tumors, basics of onychoscopy, basics of trichoscopy, disorder of vessels, and dermoscopy in nevoid disorders. The format of the book has been kept as practical and user-friendly as possible with maximum emphasis on annotated images which would help the reader identify the specific diagnostic points in the dermoscopic images.