Color Atlas of Dermatopathology

"This is a high quality atlas. … include[s] extensive clinical photographs."
—Barbara M. Egbert, Doody’s Book Review Service, 2007

DescriptionThis concise atlas integrates clinical dermatology and dermatopathology, covering the gamut of skin disease including inflammatory, neoplastic, and congenital. Chapters use an outline format with numerous tables, followed by photographs of clinical lesions and photomicrographs of the histologic features of the lesions.
Purpose The goal is to pair clinical and histologic photographs with text to improve the understanding of clinicopathologic correlation. This ultimately aids in differential diagnoses, a worthy objective.
Audience Targeted at both dermatologists and pathologists, this book would be useful at many levels of training. It would be valuable to residents as a reference and as a study tool for board examinations as well as to practitioners of dermatology, pathology, and dermatopathology as a ready reference for both clinical and histopathologic information. The author is well known in the field and the contributors are credible authorities.
Features The book focuses on the most important points of the diseases included. It is not meant to be an exhaustive text on the subject, but rather a reference integrating clinical and pathologic features in dermatopathology. ... the subject areas are well covered. Some chapters are very thorough, such as the ones on benign melanocytic nevi and cutaneous vasculitis. The numerous tables are helpful and the illustrations are good to excellent. ...
Assessment This is a high quality atlas. Most books on this subject are rather lengthy, and there are few similar concise books with which to compare this one, other than Practical Dermatopathology by Rapini, which is an excellent concise text, but does not include the extensive clinical photographs.
Weighted Numerical Score: 98 - 5 Stars!
—Barbara M. Egbert, M.D., VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Doody’s Book Review Service, October 9, 2007