Main description:

This two volume set is a complete guide to the diagnosis and management of dermatologic diseases and disorders for postgraduate trainees.

Comprising 15 sections and 180 chapters across 1500 pages, the comprehensive text helps trainees prepare for examinations, focusing on questions commonly seen in previous exams.

Beginning with an overview of the basics (history, anatomy, function, clinical signs etc), the following sections cover different types of skin disease.

Each topic is discussed in depth, explaining its pathology, signs and symptoms, examination and investigation techniques, diagnosis, and treatment methods.

The book concludes with extensive sections on therapeutics and surgery.

A complete section is dedicated to paediatric dermatology.

Key points are summarised at the end of each chapter to assist learning.

With contributions from more than 300 expert authors, the book is highly illustrated with algorithms, tables, diagrams, and photographs.

Contents:

SECTION 1: OVERVIEW OF BASICS IN DERMATOLOGY
SECTION 2: PRURITUS, URTICARIA, ALLERGY, AND ECZEMAS
SECTION 3: PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY
SECTION 4: INFECTIONS AND INFESTATIONS
SECTION 5: AUTOIMMUNE SKIN DISEASES
SECTION 6: PAPULOSQUAMOUS DISEASES
SECTION 7: SKIN AND SYSTEMIC DISEASE
SECTION 8: HAIR, NAIL, MUCOSA, ADNEXA AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE
SECTION 9: VASCULAR DISEASES
SECTION 10: NEOPLASTIC SKIN DISEASES
SECTION 11: PIGMENTARY AND MISCELLANEOUS SKIN DISORDERS
SECTION 12: LEPROSY
SECTION 13: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE
SECTION 14: THERAPEUTICS IN DERMATOLOGY
SECTION 15: PROCEDURAL DERMATOLOGY