Cutaneous medicine and surgery : an integrated program in dermatology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Arndt, Kenneth A., 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Saunders, [1996]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • What fundamental information is necessary to understand cutaneous medicine and surgery?
  • What is normal skin?
  • What does normal skin do?
  • Keratinocytes: Biology and differentiation
  • The care of normal skin
  • How are abnormalities of the skin described?
  • What basis surgical concepts and procedures are required for the practice of cutaneous medicine and surgery?
  • Fundamental anatomy
  • Biopsy techniques: Description and proper use
  • What disorders present with inflamed skin?
  • Mechanisms, symptoms, and treatment of inflammation
  • Pathways of inflammation
  • Mechanisms of pruritus
  • Topical corticosteroid therapy
  • Inflammatory diseases that principally affect the epidermis and dermis
  • Contact dermatitis
  • Allergic contact dermatitis: Cell-mediated immunity and langerhans cell biology
  • Contact dermatitis and occupational dermatology.
  • Diaper dermatitis
  • Hand and foot dermatitis
  • Atopic dermatitis
  • Lichen simplex chronicus, prurigo nodularis, and notalgia paresthetica.
  • Nummular dermatitis
  • Seborrheic dermatitis
  • Pityriasis Rosea
  • Small plaque parapsoriasis
  • Graft-versus-host disease
  • Lichenoid dermatitdes (lichen planus, lichen nitidus, keratosis lichenoides chronica, and erythema dyschronicum perstans)
  • Lichen striatus
  • Erythema multiforme
  • Pityriasis lichenoides
  • Lupus erythematosus
  • Dermatomyositis and polymyositis
  • Pigmented purpuric dermatoses
  • Psoriasis
  • Reiter's syndrome
  • Subcorneal pustular dermatosis
  • Pityriasis rubra pilaris
  • Erythroderma
  • Transient acantholytic dermatosis
  • Jessner's lymphocytic infiltrate
  • Figurate erythemas
  • Hypereosinophilic syndrome
  • Wells' syndrome
  • Dermatoses of pregnancy
  • Neutrophilic dermatoses
  • Pyoderma gangrenosum
  • Behcet's disease
  • Urticaria.
  • Perforating disorders
  • Cutaneous reactions to drugs and biologic response modifiers
  • Cutaneous reactions to chemotherapeutic agents
  • Granulomatous inflammation
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Granuloma annulare and actinic granuloma
  • Rheumatoid nocule, necrobiosis lipoidica, and necrobiotic xanthogranuloma
  • Tattoos, foreign body granulomas, and their treatment
  • Follicular inflammation
  • Acne
  • Sebaceous gland science, clinical description, and therapies.
  • Surgical treatment of scars
  • Hidrodenitis suppurativa
  • Rosacea (with discussion of electrosurgery)
  • Perioral dermatitis
  • Pseudofolliculitis barbae
  • Disorders of follicular keratinization
  • Chondrodermatitis nodularis
  • Relapsing polychondritis
  • Vasculitis and disorders of vascular reactivity
  • Temporal arteritis
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Microscopic polyarteritis, Wegener's granulomatosis, and Churg-Strauss syndrome
  • Erythema elevatum diutinum and granuloma faciale
  • Erythromelalgia, erythermalagia, and flushing
  • Raynaud's phenomenon
  • Noninflammatory small vessel occlusive diseases
  • Lymphedema
  • Leg ulcers and wound healing
  • Phlebology and sclerotherapy
  • Cutaneous venulitis (necrotizing vasculitis, leukocytoclastic vascultis
  • Panniculitis
  • Erythema nodosum and nodular vascultis
  • Sclerema neonatorum and subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn
  • Sclerosing panniculitis and protease inhibitor deficinecy panniculitis
  • Other forms of panniculitis.
  • What diseases cause blistering of the skin?
  • The dermoepidermal junction: Structure, biochemistry, antigenicity, and recent molecular biologic studies
  • Epidermolysis bullosa.
  • Pemphigus vulgaris and the pemphigus disease spectrum
  • Bullous pemphigoid
  • Cicatricial pemphigoid
  • Herpes gestationis
  • Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
  • Dermatitis herpetiformis
  • Linear IgA bullous dermatosis
  • Toxic epidermal necrolysis
  • Blistering and pustular disorders of the neonate
  • What diseases are caused by environmental exposure or physical trauma?
  • Basic photobiology, phototoxicity, and photoallergy
  • Photodamage and photoaging
  • Sunscreens
  • The idiopathic photodermatoses
  • Chronic actinic dermatitis
  • Responses to friction and hydration
  • Psychocutaneous disorders
  • Aquatic dermatology
  • Insect bites and stings
  • Myiasis and Tungiasis
  • Cutaneous effects of heat and cold
  • Radiation dermatitis
  • Physical trauma to the skin and emergency department dermatology
  • Sprots-related skin disease.
  • What disorders change the structure of the dermis?
  • The dermis
  • Scleroderma
  • Chemically induced scleroderma
  • Morphea and morphea profunda
  • Keloids and hypertorphic scars
  • Dupuytren's disease
  • Anetomderma
  • Cutis laxa
  • What infections and infestations affect the skin?
  • Skin infections caused by staphylococci, streptococci, and the resident cutaneous flora.
  • Staphylococcal toxin-mediated syndromes
  • Skin infections caused by unusual bacterial pathogens
  • Syphilis and the treponematoses
  • Lyme borreliosis
  • Chancroid, granuloma inguinale, and lymphogranuloma venereum
  • Tuberculous mycobacterial infections of the skin
  • Leprosy
  • Nocardiosis and actinomycosis
  • Rocky mountain spotted fever and other rickettsial diseases
  • Bacillary angiomatosis, cat-scratch disease, and bartonellosis
  • The zoonoses
  • Common superficial mycoses
  • the dermatophytoses
  • Cutaneous candidiasis
  • Deep fungal and opporutnistic mycoses
  • Herpesvirus infections
  • Poxviruses
  • Human papillomavirus infection
  • Viral exanthems
  • Human immunodeficiency virus infection and the cutaneous complications of immunosuppression
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Parasitic disease
  • Body lice, head lice, pubic lice, and scabies.
  • What diseases alter skin color?
  • Biology of melanocytes
  • Vitiligo
  • Albinism and other disorders of hypopigmentation
  • Melasma and other disorders of hyperpigmentation
  • What diseases alter hair, nails, and sweat glands?
  • Biochemistry and control of hair growth
  • Anatomy
  • Androgenetic disorders
  • Hair replacement surgery.
  • Alopecia areata and other nonscarring alopecias
  • Scarring alopecia
  • Biology and disorders of nails
  • Biology and disorders of sweat glands
  • Sweat gland science
  • Pathology and surgery
  • What diseases alter mucous membranes?
  • Disorders of oral mucous membranes
  • Genital disorders
  • What benign and maligant proliferations of cells affect the skin, and how are they treated?
  • Molecular mechanisms of photocarcinogenesis: The role of ras and p53 alterations
  • Maligant neoplasm of deratinocytes
  • Benign neoplasms of the epidermis
  • Cysts of epithelial adexal origin
  • Neoplasms of the pilosebaceous unit
  • Neoplasms with eccrine or apocrine differentiation
  • Angiogenesis, vascular malformations and proliferations
  • Neoplasms of muscle and fat, liposuction surgery of fat hypertrophy
  • Neural tumors (other than tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis)
  • Fibrous neoplasms
  • Melanocytic nevi
  • Melanoma
  • Mastocytosis.
  • Langerhans cell hitiocytosis
  • Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis and sinus histiocytosis
  • Other histiocytoses of childhood
  • Cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia
  • Lymphomatoid papulosis
  • Cutaneous t-cell lymphoma.