Description

Dermatology is the branch of medicine that deals with skin, mucous membranes, hair and nails. Although relatively straightforward to examine, the skin is the largest organ and has numerous potential abnormalities - there are about 1500 distinct skin diseases and many variants. We are relatively ignorant about the pathogenesis of the majority of these although knowledge is rapidly increasing especially in the fields of molecular medicine and genetics. This book will discuss the impact of skin diseases, outline the biology of normal skin, and describe how to examine the skin and how its diseases may be effectively treated. A range of skin infections, inflammatory skin diseases and neoplastic conditions will be briefly described. This book of Dermatology is an ideal resource for today's medical student, hospital resident, specialty registrar in dermatology or internal medicine, specialist nurse or family doctor. It presents the subject as a series of two page 'learning units', each covering important aspects of clinical dermatology.