e market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise, simple approach and excellent illustrations. Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond.
Table of contents
Preface
About the authors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part 1 Principles of dermatology
Chapter 1 Evidence based dermatology
Chapter 2 Dermatology: the best on the web
Chapter 3 Dermatology: then and now
Chapter 4 How the skin works
Chapter 5 The burden of skin disease
Part 2 The patient consultation
Chapter 6 Taking the history
Chapter 7 How to examine the skin
Chapter 8 Diagnostic pathways
Part 3 Basic procedures
Chapter 9 Surgical basics
Chapter 10 Key procedures
Chapter 11 Dermoscopy
Part 4 Treatments
Chapter 12 Topical therapy
Chapter 13 Practical special management
Chapter 14 Systemic therapies
Part 5 Inflammatory diseases
Chapter 15 Psoriasis
Chapter 16 Atopic dermatitis
Chapter 17 Acne and teenage skin
Chapter 18 Hidradenitis suppurativa
Chapter 19 Common inflammatory diseases
Part 6 ER dermatology
Chapter 20 Acute dermatology
Chapter 21 Blistering skin diseases
Chapter 22 Drug reactions
Part 7 Skin infections
Chapter 23 Bacterial infections
Chapter 24 Viral infections
Chapter 25 Fungal infections
Chapter 26 Skin infestations
Chapter 27 Tropical skin diseases
Part 8 Specific sites
Chapter 28 The red face
Chapter 29 Oral and genital disease
Chapter 30 Nail and hair disease
Part 9 Specific ages
Chapter 31 The newborn infant
Chapter 32 The child with a rash
Chapter 33 Skin problems in pregnancy
Chapter 34 Elderly skin
Part 10 Skin allergy
Chapter 35 Cutaneous allergy
Chapter 36 The working hands
Chapter 37 Urticaria
Part 11 Skin tumours
Chapter 38 Benign skin lesions
Chapter 39 Non-melanoma skin cancers
Chapter 40 Malignant melanoma
Chapter 41 Other malignant skin conditions
Part 12 Photodermatology
Chapter 42 Pigmentation
Chapter 43 Sun and skin
Chapter 44 Phototherapy
Chapter 45 Photodermatoses
Part 13 Systemic diseases
Chapter 46 Skin signs of systemic disease
Chapter 47 Autoimmune disease and vasculitis
Chapter 48 The immunosuppressed patient
Part 14 Miscellaneous conditions
Chapter 49 Psychodermatology
Chapter 50 Pruritus
Chapter 51 Cosmetic Dermatology
Chapter 52 Skin breakdown
Chapter 53 Hereditary skin diseases
Self-assessment
Clinical picture quiz 102
Clinical picture quiz answers 105
Index 107
