Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Dec 8, 2009 - Medical - 860 pages

Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies has been thoroughly revised to give you the latest treatment options for dermatologic conditions. Mark G. Lebwohl, Warren R. Heymann, John Berth-Jones, and Ian Coulson present an intuitive and easy-to-use, definitive treatment reference that covers the full range of choices for each condition so that you are prepared even when your patients do not respond to primary or secondary therapies. With new chapters on today s hot topics-methocillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, atypical nevi, autoimmune progesterone dermatitis, and more-and new contributions from international experts, you ll have a global and current perspective on therapeutic options. Offer your patients the full range of choices and be prepared when your patients do not respond to primary or secondary therapies.

Offers guidance for even the most difficult clinical problems by including third and fourth line therapies, as well as standard treatments, so you have options to try when all else fails.

Features a summary of each treatment strategy along with detailed discussions of treatment choices so that you can apply the in-depth knowledge of the authors and editors.

Presents each chapter in a tabular format, with checklists of diagnostic and investigative pearls and color-coded boxed text, for quick at-a-glance summaries of key details.

Includes a full-color clinical photograph of each disease to help you diagnose more effectively. Includes access to the full text, Gold Standard drug database, and all the images online-fully searchable-at expertconsult.com.

Covers new and more commonly presenting disorders in 12 new chapters on today s hot topics, such as methocillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, atypical nevi, autoimmune progesterone dermatitis, and more.

Presents up-to-date evidence and the latest treatments to keep you on the cutting edge of practice.

Describes global best practice on the treatment of key disorders through new contributions from international experts.

 

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Acne keloidalis nuchae
Acrodermatitis enteropathica
Actinic prurigo
Actinomycosis
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
Subcorneal pustular dermatosis
Allergic contact dermatitis and photoallergy
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Lymphomatoid papulosis
Malignant atrophic papulosis
Malignant melanoma
Mastocytoses
Melasma
Merkel cell carcinoma
Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA

Alopecia areata
Androgenetic alopecia
Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia
Angular cheilitis
Anogenital warts
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Aphthous stomatitis
Atopic dermatitis
Atypical nevi
Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
Bacillary angiomatosis
Balanitis
Basal cell carcinoma
Beckers Nevus
Drug eruptions
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Epidermal nevi
Epidermodysplasia verruciformis
Epidermolysis bullosa
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
Erythema annulare centrifugum
Erythema dyschromicum perstans
Erythema elevatum diutinum
Erythema multiforme
Erythema nodosum
Erythrasma
Erythroderma
Erythrokeratodermas
Erythromelalgia
Erythropoietic protoporphyria
Extramammary Pagets disease
Fabry disease
Flushing
Follicular mucinosis
Folliculitis
Folliculitis decalvans
FoxFordyce disease
Furunculosis
Geographic tongue
GianottiCrosti syndrome
Gonorrhea
Graft versus host disease
Granuloma annulare
Granuloma faciale
Granuloma inguinale
Granulomatous cheilitis
HaileyHailey disease
Hemangiomas
Hereditary angioedema
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
Herpes genitalis
Herpes labialis
Herpes zoster
Hidradenitis suppurativa
Hydroa vacciniforme
Hyperhidrosis
Ichthyoses
Impetigo
Irritant contact dermatitis
Juvenile plantar dermatosis
Kaposi sarcoma
Miliaria
Molluscum contagiosum
Morphea
Mucoceles
Mucous membrane pemphigoid
Mycetoma eumycetoma and actinomycetoma
Mycobacterial atypical skin infections
Mycosis fungoides
Myiasis
Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn
Porphyria cutanea tarda
Port wine stains
Pregnancy dermatoses
Pretibial myxedema
Prurigo nodularis
Prurigo pigmentosa
Pruritus
Pruritus
Pruritus vulvae
Pseudofolliculitis barbae
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Psoriasis
Psychogenic excoriation
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Pyogenic granuloma
Radiation dermatitis
Raynauds disease and phenomenon
Reactive arthritis
Relapsing polychondritis
Rhinophyma
Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other rickettsial infections
Rosacea
Sarcoidosis
Scabies
Scleredema Chapter 212 Scleroderma
Sebaceous hyperplasia
Seborrheic eczema
Seborrheic keratosis
Sporotrichosis
Squamous cell carcinoma
Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
Steatocystoma multiplex
Stoma care
Striae
Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
Sweets syndrome
Syphilis
Syringomata
Tinea capitis
Tinea pedis and skin dermatophytosis
Tinea unguium
Tinea versicolor pityriasis versicolor
Toxic epidermal necrolysis and StevensJohnson syndrome
Transient acantholytic dermatosisGrovers disease
Trichotillomania
Tuberculosis and tuberculids
Urticaria and angioedema
Varicella
Viral exanthems rubella roseola rubeola enterovirus
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