Dermatoscopy of Non-Pigmented Skin Tumors
Pink - Think - Blink
by Iris Zalaudek, Giuseppe Argenziano, Jason Giacomel
1st Edition
Publisher: CRC Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781482237528 |
| eText ISBN | 9780429586231 |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Publishing Year | 2015 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 158 |
Dermatoscopy of Non-Pigmented Skin Tumors: Pink - Think - Blink, 1st Edition, is a textbook published by CRC Press. It addresses the clinical examination of non-pigmented cutaneous lesions, which often present greater diagnostic difficulty than pigmented tumors.
The text outlines foundational technical concepts alongside visual evaluation methods, examining polarized and nonpolarized instrumentation, vascular morphology, and vascular arrangement. It also reviews characteristic patterns seen across diverse conditions, ranging from benign adnexal lesions to amelanotic melanoma and basal cell carcinoma.
Beyond lesion classification, the volume details clinical considerations for assessing surgical margins, selecting between surgical and topical interventions, and monitoring therapeutic outcomes following treatment.
Table of Contents
Section I: Technical Aspects
Chapter 1: Physics of polarized and nonpolarized dermoscopy and digital photography
Chapter 2: Instrument-dependent criteria
Chapter 3: Metaphoric and descriptive language in dermoscopy: Lessons from the cognitive sciences
Chapter 4: How to perform dermoscopy of non-pigmented skin lesions
Section II: Dermatoscopy of Non-pigmented Lesions
Chapter 5: How to assess a given non-pigmented lesion
Chapter 6: Clinical assessment
Chapter 7: Vascular morphologies
Chapter 8: Vascular arrangements
Chapter 9: Specific patterns
Chapter 11: The influence of tumor thickness on the vascular morphologies
Section III: Specific Dermatoscopic Patterns and Their Diagnostic Significance
Chapter 12: Intradermal nevi (including Unna and Miescher types)
Chapter 13: Clark nevi in fair skin types
Chapter 14: Spitz nevi
Chapter 15: Atypical Spitzoid neoplasms (atypical Spitz nevi, atypical Spitz tumors, Spitzoid melanoma): A clinicopathological update
Chapter 16: Nevi in patients with Bap1 germ line mutation, red-hair polymorphism, and albinism
Chapter 17: Amelanotic melanoma
Chapter 18: Hypomelanotic melanoma
Chapter 19: Cutaneous melanoma metastases
Chapter 20: Sebaceous hyperplasia
Chapter 21: Seborrheic keratosis
Chapter 22: Dermatofibromas
Chapter 23: Angioma, pyogenic granuloma, angiokeratoma
Chapter 24: Benign adnexal lesions
Chapter 25: Basal cell carcinoma
Chapter 26: Keratinocyte skin cancer
Chapter 27: Dermoscopy of cutaneous neuroendocrine (“Merkel cell”) carcinoma
Chapter 28: Malignant vascular, adnexal, and fibrous tissue tumors
Chapter 29: Clues for the differential diagnosis of inflammatory lesions from tumoral lesions
Chapter 30: Dermoscopy for assessing surgical margins
Chapter 31: Dermoscopy in the treatment decision (surgical vs. topical)
Chapter 32: Dermoscopy for treatment monitoring (recurrence vs. clearance)
Chapter 33: Diagnostic clues and management rules
Chapter 24: Confocal microscopy in the diagnosis and management of non-pigmented skin tumors (which, when, and when not)
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