This invaluable resource examines clinical features, diagnosis, laboratory investigations, and treatment for all skin disorders, both common and rare. More than 2,000 outstanding full-color illustrations and a new Image Bank on CD-ROM offer readers invaluable diagnostic assistance by depicting how diseases present in real life. Discusses the full range of conditions, including ethnic skin, pediatric dermatology, the genoderma-toses, HIV, drug reactions, and diseases of pregnancy. Help readers find answers to their clinical questions quickly with a consistent organization and concise writing the provides exactly the right amount of information to make an informed diagnosis. Collects valuable management guidance together in a single new chapter, "Overview of Treatment". Makes clinical guidance even easier to find with 100 new summary, tips and pitfalls, and practice points boxes. Features a bonus CD-ROM that includes all the images from the book, a slide-making package, and a tool to group images according to diagnosis.
The treatment of skin diseases as merely local affairs concerning the skin only, as is now current with nearly all medical men of all schools and all the world over, is, nothing less than a crime against humanity.
Based on careful analysis of burden of disease and the costs ofinterventions, this second edition of 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition' highlights achievable priorities; measures progresstoward providing ...
Get and give the most up-to-date therapeutic advice available as every section in the book is revised with current treatment plans. Be prepared for travel-related skin diseases with new, richly illustrated coverage on tropical dermatology.
Photographs will help to illustrate the cases/conditions. Children are no less spared from severe skin diseases.
Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment According to the Law of the Similars
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
A chapter is devoted to the emotional factors in skin diseases. Another section is focus on the diagnosis of radio-dermatitis. The book can provide useful information to doctors, students, and researchers.
This sixth edition brings medical trainees and practising dermatologists fully up to date with the latest developments and advances in the treatment of skin diseases.