Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management

Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management
ISBN-10
0128040319
ISBN-13
9780128040317
Category
Medical
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2017-08-15
Publisher
Academic Press
Authors
Giuseppe Argenziano, Aimilios Lallas, Caterina Longo

Description

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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