Dermoscopy in General Dermatology

Aimilios Lallas, MD, MSc, PhD, is a dermatologist at the First Department of Dermatology, Aristotle University of Thessaloníki, Greece; he has published extensively on the use of newer technologies such as dermoscopy and reflectance confocal microscopy to investigate and monitor dermatologic disease.Enzo Errichetti, MD, MSc, DVD, is a Consultant Dermatologists and Venereologists at the Institute of Dermatology, "Santa Maria della Misericordia" University Hospital of Udine, Italy; his main research area is represented by the use of dermoscopy in the diagnosis and monitoring of non-tumoral dermatological diseases.

• PrefaceContributorsIntroductionPART I: INFLAMMATORY DISEASES1. Papulosquamous disordersAimilios Lallas and Enzo Errichetti2. Other papulonodular disordersEnzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, and Dimitrios Ioannides3. Granulomatous noninfectious disordersEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas4. Connective tissue diseasesEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas5. Facial dermatosesEnzo Errichetti, Feroze Kaliyadan, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, Giuseppe Micali, and Aimilios Lallas6. ErythemasNicola di Meo, Paola Corneli, and Iris Zalaudek7. Hyperpigmented dermatosesEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas8. Hypopigmented dermatosesEnzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, and Dimitrios Ioannides9. MiscellaneousEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios LallasPART II: INFILTRATIVE DISEASES10. Lymphomas and pseudolymphomasZoe Apalla, Aimilios Lallas, and Enzo Errichetti11. Other infiltrative conditionsEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios LallasPART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES12. Bacterial and parasitic infectionsIgnacio Gómez Martín, Balachandra S. Ankad, Enzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, Dimitrios Ioannides, and Pedro Zaballos13. MycosesDionysios Lekkas, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, and Giuseppe Micali14. Viral infectionsFrancesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, and Giuseppe MicaliPART IV: HAIR AND NAIL DISEASES15. Hair disorders (trichoscopy)Adriana Rakowska and Lidia Rudnicka16. Nail disorders (onychoscopy)Michela Starace, Aurora Alessandrini, and Bianca Maria PiracciniPART V: SKIN OF COLOR17. Disorders of pigmentationSidharth Sonthalia, Atula Gupta, Abhijeet Kumar Jha, Rashmi Sarkar,and Balachandra Suryakant Ankad18. Inflammatory and infectious conditionsVishal Gupta, Sidharth Sonthalia, Yasmeen Jabeen Bhat, Sonali Langar, and Manal Bosseila19. Hair and nail disordersArshdeep, Mathapati Shivamurthy Sukesh, Prashant Agarwal, Deepak Jakhar, and Sidharth Sonthalia20. Monitoring of therapeutic response and other applicationsSidharth Sonthalia, Tejinder Kaur, and Sakshi SrivastavaAPPENDICES: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSESI. Erythematosquamous macules/papules on the trunk and/or extremitiesII. Erythematous macules/plaques on the faceIII. Palmar/plantar keratodermaIV. Sclero-atrophic patches on the trunk and/or extremitiesV. Hyperpigmented macules/papules on the trunk and/or extremitiesVI. Hypopigmented macules on the trunk and/or extremitiesVII. Itchy papules/nodules on the trunk and/or extremitiesVIII. Inflammatory papules along Blaschko’s linesIX. Purpuric macules/patchesX. Nonscarring alopeciaXI. Scarring alopeciaXII. Hair castsXIII. OnycholysisXIV. Pitting of the nail plateIndex

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