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The Melanocytic Proliferations :

Crowson, A. Neil.

The Melanocytic Proliferations : a Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions. - 2nd ed. - Hoboken : Wiley, 2014. - 1 online resource (532 pages)

Melanocytic nevi with focal atypical epithelioid cell components/inverted type A nevus/clonal nevi.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Disclosure; About the Companion Website; Chapter 1: An Approach to the Clinical Diagnosis of Melanoma, Its Precursors, and Its Clinical Mimics; Introduction; Incidence and risk; Precursors to melanoma; Approach to the patient; Initial encounter; History; Physical examination; Approach to the individual pigmented lesion; Summary; Atlas of Clinical Lesions Correlating to Various Entities Discussed in the Text; Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines; Chapter 3: Benign Acquired Nevi. Chapter 4: Dermal Dendritic Melanocytic Proliferations/Dermal MelanocytosesChapter 5: Spitz Nevus; Chapter 6: Combined Nevus, Deep Penetrating Nevus, and Plexiform Spindle Cell Nevus; Chapter 7: Recurrent Melanocytic Nevus; Chapter 8: Congenital Nevi; Chapter 9: Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi, De Novo Intraepidermal Epithelioid and Lentinginous Melanocytic Dysplasias, and Nevi at Specific Anatomic Sites; Chapter 10: Melanoma; Chapter 11: Conjunctival Melanocytic Proliferations; Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines; Freckles (ephelides); Clinical features; Histopathology (Figure 2.1). Differential diagnosisDowling-Degos disease; Clinical features; Histopathology; Lentigines: Lentigo simplex and the lentiginoses; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.3A, B); Mucosal lentigines; Labial melanotic macule; Genital lentigines; Vulvar and penile melanosis; Acral lentigines; Melanotic macule of the nail matrix; Actinic (solar) lentigo; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11); Differential diagnosis; Pigmented actinic keratosis (Figure 2.14); PUVA-induced lentigines (PUVA therapy/tanning beds/xeroderma pigmentosum); Clinical features. Histopathology (Figure 2.15)Large cell acanthoma; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.12A, B, 2.13A, B); Becker nevus; Clinical features; Histology (Figure 2.16); Ink spot lentigo; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.17, 2.18); Melasma; Clinical features; Histopathology (Figures 2.19, 2.20A, B); Pathogenesis; Treatment; Albright syndrome; Clinical features; Histology; The café-au-lait macule; Clinical features (Table 2.2); Histopathology (Figures 2.21, 2.22, 2.23; Table 2.2); Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation; Clinical features; Histology (Figures 2.24, 2.25A, B). Chapter 3: Benign Acquired NeviBroad overview of clinical features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1); Broad overview of the histologic features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired junctional nevus (Figures 3.1, 3.2; Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired compound nevus (Figure 3.3; Table 3.1); Histopathology of the common acquired dermal nevus (Figures 3.4 through 3.10; Table 3.1); Other acquired benign nevi; Balloon cell nevus; Cockarde nevus; Nevus spilus; Problematic topics in the realm of the common acquired nevus.

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 in.

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Melanoma.
Melanocytes.
Melanoma.
Mole (Dermatology)
Melanoma.
Melanoma.
Skin Neoplasms.
Melanocytes--pathology.
Nevus.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.


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RC280.M3 .C387 2014

616.99477

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