Cutaneous Melanoma (eBook, ePUB)

A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management
Redaktion: Argenziano MD, Giuseppe; Ferrara, Gerardo; Kyrgidis, Athanassios; Moscarella, Elvira; Longo MD; Lallas, Aimilios

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management serves as an easy-to-consult, short, and schematic reference providing guidelines for diagnosing and managing melanoma in the context of various clinical scenarios. In the daily routine of a busy clinician, there is a need for schematic reference tools that allow quick consultation for immediate decisions. Melanoma is a deadly disease that should be promptly managed following precise and evidence-based guidelines. The guide contains many schematics and figures, vastly outnumbering the pages dedicated to text. This guide follows the sequence of a real clinical setting, going from the first screening visit to the final stages of terminal patients. - Provides a quick-access resource for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma patients at all stages - Includes succinct guidelines, schematics, and figures for busy clinicians - Concludes with a section addressing special clinical situations, including melanoma in pregnancy, pediatric melanoma, familial melanoma and MPM, atypical Spitz tumor, occult primary melanoma, and the histopathologic gray zone

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128040317
• Artikelnr.: 48937235

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Argenziano is the Head of the Dermatology Unit at the University of Campania, Naples, Italy; Co-founder and past president of the International Dermoscopy Society; President of the Italian Society of Dermatology; and Editor-in-Chief of Dermatology Practical and Conceptual Journal.

Dr Argenziano's main research area is dermato-oncology - having authored over 800 scientific articles and landmark primary publications and books concerning dermoscopy, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer - with an h-index of 76 (Scopus, 2024).

Over the past 25 years he has supervised over 500 foreign and Italian residents in Dermatology, established scientific collaborations with 1500+ colleagues from more than 50 Nations, and organized more than 500 national and international didactic meetings, courses and conferences. Dr Argenziano is a frequently invited speaker and/or has been elected chairman in more than 500 national and international conferences in the field of dermatol

ogy.Caterina Longo is Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Although providing the best care possible for patients remains her primary goal, she also committed to education and clinical research. She is actively involved in clinical research and she has published numerous papers on topics related to skin cancer with an emphasis on melanoma, atypical nevi, Spitz/Reed nevi and non-melanoma skin cancer. Her research interests are focused on the use of imaging instruments such as dermoscopy, and confocal laser microscopy to recognize skin cancer early in its development. She pioneered the use of ex vivo fluorescence confocal microscopy for micrographic Mohs surgery applied for basal cell carcinoma and other visceral tumors. She frequently lectures on these topics both nationally and internationally being the second Author publishing on this topic (source Scopus, December 2016) for a total of 250 papers (H-Index 28; citations 2702).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Melanoma epidemiology and risk factors2. Diagnosis of primary melanoma3. Staging of melanoma patients4. Therapy of melanoma5. Follow-up of disease-free patients6. Special clinical situations