Thuy L. Phung, MD, PhD


Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine


Department of Pathology and Immunology


Houston, Texas, USA

Teresa S. Wright, MD, FAAD, FAAP


Division Chief, Pediatric Dermatology LeBonheur Children's Hospital


Associate Professor, Dermatology and Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center


Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Crystal Y. Pourciau, MD, MPH, FAAD


Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics


Baylor College of Medicine


Texas Children's Hospital


Houston, Texas, USA

Bruce R. Smoller, MD


Professor and ChairDepartment of PathologyUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryRochester, NY [...]

Each chapter addresses the differential diagnoses of skin disorders demonstrating the salient histologic anomalies

Includes in-depth discussions of the clinical findings, as well as the histologic and immunohistochemical features of each disease

Richly illustrated with color photomicrographs Written by experts in the field

Preface.- Genodermatoses.- Spongiotic (eczematous) dermatoses.- Vesicular and bullous dermatoses.- Papulosquamous diseases.- Interface dermatoses.- Dermatoses with minimal epidermal changes.- Granulomatous diseases.- Connective tissue diseases.- Vasculitides, vasculopathies and neutrophilic infiltrates.- Panniculitis.- Inflammatory disorders of the cutaneous appendages.- Bacterial and protozoal diseases of the skin.- Viral and rickettsial diseases of the skin.- Fungal infestations.- Insect bites and infestations.- Nutritional disorders.- Deposition disorders.- Disorders of pigmentation.- Diseases of the nails and hair.- Iatrogenic dermatologic conditions.- Melanocytic proliferations and other pigmented lesions.- Vascular anomalies and proliferations.- Hematopoietic proliferations.- Keratinocytic cysts, proliferations and neoplasms.- Fibrous proliferations.- Neural proliferations.- Adipocyte proliferations.- Smooth muscle, cartilage, bone proliferations.- Benign hamartomatous proliferations.- Cutaneous metastases.