DESCRIPTION:
This book provides practicing pathologists, dermatologists, cutaneous oncologists and dermatopathologists with a reference textbook that reviews the clinical and histopathologic features of skin disorders that affect children, along with a discussion of the molecular pathogenesis for each disease as it is currently known. The book includes a concise discussion of the clinical presentation, as well as the histologic and, when appropriate, immunohistochemical features of each disease. The book is divided into two main sections, non-neoplastic and neoplastic skin diseases. Each section is comprised of a series of chapters organized according to histologic findings rather than by clinical classification systems. This will enable the practicing pathologist to browse chapters based upon observation of routine histologic patterns. Each chapter addresses the differential diagnoses of skin disorders with focus on salient histologic characteristics. The text is richly illustrated with over 1000 colorful clinical and histologic photographs for each of the 400 entities discussed. Pediatric Dermatopathology provides a microscope table reference for the practicing pediatric pathologist, general pathologist and dermatopathologist. Further, it will serve as a reference volume for dermatologists, pediatricians and oncologic surgeons.
CONTENTS:
Spongiotic Dermatitis
Papulosquamous Diseases
Vesiculobullous Diseases
Interface Dermatoses
Dermatoses with Minimal Epidermal Changes
Granulomatous Eruptions
Diseases of Collagen and Elastic Tissue
Vasculitides, Vasculopathies, and Neutrophilic Infiltrates
Panniculitis
Inflammatory Disorders of the Cutaneous Appendages
Bacterial and Protozoal Diseases
Viral and Rickettsial Diseases
Fungal Diseases
Insect Bites and Infestations
Nutritional Disorders
Deposition Disorders
Disorders of Pigmentation
Diseases of the Hair and Nails
Iatrogenic Dermatologic Conditions
Melanocytic Proliferations and Other Pigmented Lesions
Vascular Anomalies
Hematopoietic Proliferations
Keratinous Cysts and Hamartomas
Tumors of the Cutaneous Appendages and the Epidermis
Fibrous Proliferations
Neural Proliferations
Adipocyte Proliferations
Muscle and Bone Proliferations
Benign Hamartomatous Proliferations
Cutaneous Metastases
Author information:
Thuy L. Phung, MD, PhD
Texas Children""s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Houston, Texas, USA
Teresa S. Wright, MD, FAAD, FAAP
Division Chief, Pediatric Dermatology LeBonheur Children""s Hospital
Associate Professor, Dermatology and Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Crystal Y. Pourciau, MD, MPH, FAAD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children""s Hospital
Houston, Texas, USA
Bruce R. Smoller, MD
Professor and ChairDepartment of PathologyUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryRochester, NY US
