Description
This book aims to provide the definitive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of various blistering skin diseases. It offers the reader a succinct clinical description for quick recognition of different types of blistering diseases and their relative urgency. It also provides information on the clinical features of blistering skin diseases, differential diagnoses, laboratory findings, and therapeutic strategy. There is also a section on pathogenesis to enhance the readers understanding on the molecular events underlying the blistering disease process. This book will be useful for dermatologists in training and in practice, physicians working in emergency departments, candidates for post-registration qualifications, general practitioners and medical students. Lawrence S. Chan, MD – Associate Professor of Dermatology and Microbiology/Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, USA. 1. Overview of blistering skin diseases. 2. Diagnostic Methods: Skin biopsy, Histopathology, Immunofluorescence microscopy, Immunomapping, Immunoblotting, Immunoprecipitation, ELISA, Transmission electron microscopy, Genetic mutation analysis. 3. Autoimmune diseases: Intraepidermal diseases, Subepidermal diseases. 4. Heritable diseases: Intraepidermal diseases, Suprabasal intraepidermal diseases, Lamina lucida subepidermal diseases, Sublamina densa subepidermal diseases. 5. Inflammation-mediated diseases. 6. Metabolic diseases. 7. Infection-mediated diseases. 8. Palmar plantar pustular dermatoses. 9. Partially characterized blistering dermatoses. Index.
