Fifty Dermatological Cases demonstrates how careful examination of the skin can lead to important diagnoses.

Discusses cutaneous presentations of systemic diseases as well as rare, life-threatening skin diseases.

Fifty Dermatological Cases highlights the importance of appropriate investigations, most particularly histopathology, in the diagnosis of skin diseases.

Contains 200 illustrations that highlight the concepts discussed in the text.

From dog bites that don't heal to the dermatological effects of a vegan diet, Fifty Dermatological Cases demonstrates the astonishing variety of cutaneous responses that occur in a range of underlying pathologies.

This fascinating treatise presents fifty cases from King's College Hospital that show the important relationship between dermatology and other medical disciplines.

Contents:

1. Haematemesis and warts
2. Annular lesions on the face of a neonate
3. A warty plaque on the sole of the foot
4. Dystrophic nails and lethargy
5. Stretchy skin
6. Chronic scaling of the scalp
7. Generalized papular thickening of the skin
8. Flexural erythema following chemotherapy
9. Painful pustules in pregnancy
10. Discharging nodules on the jaw
11. Thickening of the facial skin, weakness of the hands and loss of peripheral sensation
12. A facial and anogenital rash in an infant
13. Non-healing dog bites
14. Two patients with pustular plaques on a neurosurgical ward
15. Fever and purpuric lesions in an infant
16. Photosensitivity with skin cancers
17. A papular eruption in a patient with leukaemia
18. A polycyclic rash in a patient with epilepsy
19. Flexural papules, thirst and polyuria
20. Facial plaques and fever
21. Generalized thickening of the skin following bone marrow transplantation
22. Pruritic plaques in pregnancy
23. Multiple painless ulcers in a traveller
24. A pigmented plaque on the knee
25. Photosensitivity with scarring
26. Swelling of the hands and generalized hyperpigmentation
27. Birthmarks and macrodactyly
28. Facial nodules, cough and breathlessness
29. A unilateral breast rash
30. Fever and a desquamating rash in an infant
31. A follicular eruption in a vegan
32. Erythroderma in a Jamaican man
33. An inflamed toe and a rash on the legs in an immunosuppressed patient
34. Periorbital erythema following chemotherapy
35. Nodules and plaques in a boy with progressive liver failure
36. A unilateral groin rash
37. Patches, plaques and lymphadenopathy
38. A plaque on the shin
39. A rash and numbness involving the right thumb
40. Widespread skin sloughing in a man with fits
41. A plaque on the chest
42. A polymorphic mucocutaneous eruption in a patient with lymphoma
43. Abdominal pain, fever and acral purpura
44. Papules on the buttocks
45. A non-healing crusted plaque in a child
46. A rash on the face, upper back and hands
47. A large vascular tumour in an HIV-positive man
48. Linear blisters and pigmentation in a baby girl
49. Gradual coarse wrinkling of the skin
50. Breathlessness and widespread cutaneous necrosis

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