Main description:

The only fully-illustrated, full-color, question and answer review of dermatologic pathology

Barnhill's Dermatopathology Challenge: Self- Assessment & Review provides you with both a practical self-assessment tool and a comprehensive review, all in one compact volume. Covering pertinent clinical and histopathologic encountered in private and academic dermatopathology practice, it enables you to gain a comprehensive understanding of this critical subspecialty area.

This unique book tests your depth of knowledge about cutaneous clinicopathologic correlation through a series of more than 400 illustrated clinical vignette-style questions encompassing over 700 diagnostic entities. Each vignette is accompanied by a detailed explanation discussing relevant clinical and histopathological differential diagnoses. Additionally, each entity covered offers a summary table for rapid review and concise "quick fact" tables that highlight important diagnostic findings.

The high quality images present classic examples of conditions encountered in clinical practice and on board certification exams. Many were taken from the Textbook of Dermatopathology by Barnhill, widely acknowledged as the best resource for differential diagnosis in this field.

Features

Material covered accounts for 15% of the dermatology board and recertification examinations - passing the dermatopathology portion of the exam is required to pass the overall exam
Two-page format lets you view the unlabeled image and questions without having to cover the answers
All images are clearly labeled to help you learn and review diagnostic features

Contents:

Cases 1-200
The Diagnoses (a list w/ x-ref to the p. no.)
Appendices
Index