Walter B. Shelley, E. Dorinda Shelley

Consultations in Dermatology

Studies of Orphan and Unique Patients

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a handbook on dermatologic differential diagnosis and clinical management, focusing on sixty-two challenging and vexing clinical cases encountered in over fifty years of patient practice in dermatology. Each case is presented as a well-written vignette, told in a case-study tone. The authors first present the background of each case in a concise, thorough, manner including all the clinical details. The authors then reveal the process involved in the diagnosis and therapy involved. There is a section on relevant questions that the doctor should be pondering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780521616584
• ISBN-10: 0521616581
• Artikelnr.: 21333879

Autorenporträt

Dr Walter B. Shelley is a former Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The case of black sweat
2. A case of hives that wouldn't go away
3. The painful bath
4. A shower of hives
5. A premenstrual rash
6. Uncombable hair
7. The man who couldn't sweat
8. Scratch blisters
9. Skin deep photography
10. The bug that never was
11. Blue spots
12. White spots
13. Same place, next time rash
14. The brown spots that wouldn't go away
15. The case of the painful fingertips
16. A strange case of sunburn
17. A multiple personality dermatitis
18. Accidental hives
19. Rotten fish odor
20. Hormone blisters
21. Flower shop itch
22. 'Stress and a penny' hives
23. The case of unilateral wrinkles
24. Fiery red legs
25. Painful feet
26. Hot flashes and cold cream
27. The blisters and the skin test
28. A chilling pain
29. Rough skin and sore throats
30. The premenstrual purple chin
31. Nine year hives
32. Golf course dermatitis
33. The secret message
34. Herpes Gladiatorum
35. Sunshine allergy
36. L'Homme Rouge
37. Rings of rash
38. The breasts that never stopped growing
39. The minister's hives
40. Hardened skin
41. Battery blisters
42. Swollen lips
43. The worm from outer space
44. A new light on psoriasis
45. Black and blue spots
46. The emergency room itch
47. The sleeper
48. A crazy rash
49. Bald spots
50. The dog died
51. The abacus tumor
52. No spit
53. The smell of burnt toast
54. The twenty-three year itch
55. The mysterious treatment
56. The creeping acne cyst
57. Our first case
58. A strange case of acne
59. The case of the glass eye
60. The hand eczema caper
61. The sore that would never heal
62. Black blisters.