DESCRIPTION:
Aims to provide a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of various blistering skin diseases. This book offers the reader a succinct clinical description for quick recognition of different types of blistering diseases and their relative urgency.
CONTENTS:
1. Overview of blistering skin diseases.
2. Diagnostic Methods: Skin biopsy, Histopathology, Immunofluorescence microscopy, Immunomapping, Immunoblotting, Immunoprecipitation, ELISA, Transmission electron microscopy, Genetic mutation analysis.
3. Autoimmune diseases: Intraepidermal diseases, Subepidermal diseases.
4. Heritable diseases: Intraepidermal diseases, Suprabasal intraepidermal diseases, Lamina lucida subepidermal diseases, Sublamina densa subepidermal diseases.
5. Inflammation-mediated diseases.
6. Metabolic diseases.
7. Infection-mediated diseases.
8. Palmar plantar pustular dermatoses.
9. Partially characterized blistering dermatoses.