Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive illustrated guide gets readers fully up to date on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers and benign tumors 

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide begins with an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and causes of skin cancer. It then describes every type of skin cancer and important benign tumors, as well as dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy—followed by treatment procedures for various patient populations, including children and pregnant women. The book concludes with in-depth sections on skin cancer patients—covering critical topics like skin cancer vaccines and chemo-prevention of cancer and the economic challenges issues involved in diagnosing and treating skin cancer. 

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides an expert look at all the topics most important to clinicians and students, including the use of lasers and optical coherence tomography in skin cancer diagnosis, Mohs micrographic surgery, Hyper Ig-E and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.

• Market: Dermatologists, pathologists, medical and surgical Oncologists, general dermatology surgeons, internists, residents, fellows, medical students
• More than 165 color photos and illustrations
• Includes illustrative case studies
• Explains how to use lasers and optical coherence for diagnosis
• Covers latest, most advanced treatment procedures

Keyvan Nouri, MD, (Miami, FL) is a tenured Professor of Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology & Surgery; Louis C. Skinner, Jr., MD, Endowed Chair of Dermatology; Richard Helfman Professor of Dermatologic Surgery; Chairman of University of Miami Medical Group; Director of Mohs Micrographic Surgery, Dermatologic & Laser Surgery; Director of Surgical Training; Director of Graduate Education Specialty Training Program for Department of Dermatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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