Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide

重量：2.73kg 　頁數：898   裝訂：精裝 　開數：28.3 x 22 cm 　印刷：彩色

The most up-to-date information on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers

The high prevalence of skin cancer makes it crucial that physicians adequately understand the disease and its treatment. Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides the vital tools needed to successfully detect and treat this illness–improving patient wellness and survival. Covering the full spectrum of skin cancers, the book provides essential information on diagnosis and treatment options. The text opens with an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and causes of skin cancer, and is followed by descriptions of the various types of skin cancer and important benign tumors, and the dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy.

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide covers all the topics most important to clinicians and students, including the use of lasers and optical coherence tomography in skin cancer diagnosis, Mohs micrographic surgery, Hyper IgE and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.

Features:

• Summaries and clinical pearls for each chapter
• Patient education points
• Case studies
•  Color illustrations
• Treatment procedures for various patient populations, including children and pregnant women
•  Information on skin cancer vaccines and chemo-prevention of cancer
• Coverage of:
  -Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma-Malignant Melanoma-Cutaneous Lymphoma and Leukemias-Sarcomas-Sweat Gland Tumors-Vascular Tumors of the Skin-Eyelid, Oral, and Genital Cancers-Paget’s disease-HPV Associated Skin Cancers-Skin Cancer in Transplant and HIV Patients-Non-Melanoma and Melanoma Skin Cancers