Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide (DERMATOLOGY) - Hardcover

Nouri, Keyvan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1260453006 ISBN 13: 9781260453003

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical, 2023

Synopsis

The most up-to-date information on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers

The high prevalence of skin cancer makes it crucial that physicians adequately understand the disease and its treatment. Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides the vital tools needed to successfully detect and treat this illness–improving patient wellness and survival. Covering the full spectrum of skin cancers, the book provides essential information on diagnosis and treatment options. The text opens with an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and causes of skin cancer, and is followed by descriptions of the various types of skin cancer and important benign tumors, and the dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy.

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide covers all the topics most important to clinicians and students, including the use of lasers and optical coherence tomography in skin cancer diagnosis, Mohs micrographic surgery, Hyper IgE and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.

Features:

• Summaries and clinical pearls for each chapter
• Patient education points
• Case studies
•  Color illustrations
• Treatment procedures for various patient populations, including children and pregnant women
•  Information on skin cancer vaccines and chemo-prevention of cancer
• Coverage of:
  • -Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  • -Malignant Melanoma
  • -Cutaneous Lymphoma and Leukemias
  • -Sarcomas-Sweat Gland Tumors
  • -Vascular Tumors of the Skin
  • -Eyelid, Oral, and Genital Cancers
  • -Paget’s disease
  • -HPV Associated Skin Cancers
  • -Skin Cancer in Transplant and HIV Patients
  • -Non-Melanoma and Melanoma Skin Cancers

About this title

About the Author

Keyvan Nouri, MD
Professor of Dermatology
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL

Dr. Nouri is a leading authority and skin cancer, publishing several key papers on the topic of melanoma in recent years. He is also considered an expert on Mohs laser surgery for the treatment of melanoma, and has participated as a key panelist at many AAD symposias on derm surgery for skin cancer.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1260453006
• ISBN 13: 9781260453003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 928