Horacio Antonio Cabo
MD PhD
Head Professor of Dermatology Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Specialist in Dermatology Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Head of Dermatology Institute of Medical Research Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Ex-President The Argentine Society of Dermatology
Member Executive Committee of Ibero-Latin Americano College of Dermatology (CILAD) and The Board of the International Dermoscopy Society (IDS)
Graz, Austria
Foreword
Fernando Stengel
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Color Atlas of Dermoscopy
First Edition: 2017
9789386056306
FM5Dedicated to
My wife, sons and daughters, grandchildren and my patients
FM7Contributors
- Giuseppe Albertini MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Zoe Apalla MD
- Dermatologist
- Greece
- Giuseppe Argenziano MD PhD
- Professor and Head Dermatology Unit University of Campania
- Naples, Italy
- Renato Marchiori Bakos MD PhD
- Professor of Dermatology
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Elisa Benatti MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Stefania Borsari MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Gabriella Brancaccio MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Horacio A Cabo MD PhD
- Head Professor of Dermatology
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Specialist in Dermatology
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
- Head of Dermatology
- Institute of Medical Research
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
- Ex-President
- The Argentine Society of Dermatology
- Member
- Executive Committee of Ibero-Latin Americano College
- of Dermatology (CILAD) and
- The Board of the International Dermoscopy Society (IDS)
- Graz, Austria
- Stefano Caccavale MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Nathalie De Carvalho MD
- Dermatologist
- Brazil
- Teresa Deinlein MD
- Dermatologist
- University of Graz
- Graz, Austria
- Paula Friedman MD
- Dermatologist
- Department of Dermatology Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas ‘A Lanari’
- University of Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Alessio Gambardella MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Stefano Gardini MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Harald Kittler MD
- AO Professor
- Department of Dermatology
- Medical University of Vienna
- Vienna, Austria
- Aimilios Lallas MD MSc PhD
- Dermatologist-Venereologist
- First Department of Dermatology
- Aristotle University
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- Caterina Longo MD
- Professor of Dermatology
- Dermatology Unit
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Amalia Lupoli MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Marco Manfredini MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Carolina Marcucci MD
- Dermatologist
- Hospital Alvarez
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Elvira Moscarella MD
- Dermatologist
- Dermatology and Skin
- Cancer Unit
- Arcispedale S Maria Nuova
- IRCCS Reggio
- Emilia, Modena, Italy
- Full Professor and Chairman
- Department of Dermatology
- University of Modena and Reggio
- Emilia, Modena, Italy
- María Rosario Peralta MD
- Dermatologist
- University of Buenos Aires
- Honorary Assistant
- Medical Research Institute University of Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Simonetta Piana MD
- Dermatologist
- Italy
- Cliff Rosendahl MBBS PhD
- Associate Professor
- University of Queensland
- Australia
- Distinguished Visiting Professor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Tehran, Iran
- Lidia Rudnicka MD PhD
- Professor
- Department of Dermatology
- President
- Polish Dermatological Society
- Chairman
- Department of Dermatology
- Medical University of Warsaw
- Warsaw, Poland
- Emilia Noemi Cohen Sabban MD
- Dermatologist
- Deputy Chief of the Instituto de Investigaciones
- Médicas A Lanari
- University of Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Dermatology
- University of Buenos Aires
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Gabriel Salerni MD PhD
- Dermatologist, Doctor in Medicine
- Universidad Nacional de Rosario and Hospital Provincial del Centenario de Rosario
- Santa Fe, Argentina
- Philipp Tschandl MD PhD
- Dermatologist
- Department of Dermatology
- Medical University of Vienna
- Vienna, Austria
- Iris Zalaudek MD PhD
- Dermatologist
- Associate Professor
- Division of Dermatology
- Medical University of Graz
- Graz, Austria
- President
- International Dermoscopy Society
- Graz, Austria
If you believe that augmenting your diagnostic skills with available, office-based and cheap hand-held intruments is your duty as a dermatologist, this book will prove helpful to you.
Drawn from personal experience and in association with a group of world-recognized experts, Professor Cabo covers the growing field of Dermoscopy, including melanocytic and nonmelanocytic lesions, benign and malignant total body follow-up photography, entomodermatoscopy, inflammatoscopy, tricoscopy, capillaroscopy and in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy.
The information in this state-of-the-art volume is presented in a simple manner, with the aid of clear diagrams, that emphasize the things one should look out for. Data are highlighted with the use of tables that single out the characteristic signs of each individual entity.
The authors present a user-friendly book, a practically rapid consultation reference in the office.
As the use of the dermatoscope expands, so have its applications widened, well beyond the original differential diagnosis of melanocytic lesions. The recognition of vascular patterns associated with nonpigmented (amelanotic) melanomas, the importance of diagnostic algorithms, the chapters on Revised Pattern Analysis and Chaos and Clues, all emphasize the fact that dermoscopy is a rapidly evolving diagnostic technique. Thus, to achieve high specificity and sensitivity, the method requires knowledge and hands-on expertise.
It is no surprise that colleagues with this wonderful hand-held device—a dermatoscope—would begin to visualize the normal and disease-related fauna on/in the skin superficial layers; that they would look at hairs, nailfolds and nailbed and ‘dig into’ inflammatory skin conditions. The results of their efforts are well represented in the corresponding chapters!
The main author of this book hopes that his readers may improve their dermoscopic skills for the benefit of their patients. Color Atlas of Dermoscopy is a step in the right direction.
Fernando Stengel MD
Ex-Assistant Professor
Skin & Cancer Unit
New York University
New York City, New York, USA
Ex-Chief
Department of Dermatology
Clinical Hospital
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ex-Chief
Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas (CEMIC)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
FM11Preface
Many years have passed since I began to use the dermatoscope with nonpolarized light.
For over twenty years, I have attended courses, I have read many journals and books, I have published articles, my own books, CD-ROMs, I have taught numerous courses, and presented hundreds of cases.
Today, I finish a much-cherished project, my first book in English.
Here I share all the experiences amassed in these years. I hope, dear reader, that you will find it useful to improve your dermoscopic learning for the benefit of your patients.
Horacio Antonio Cabo
FM13Acknowledgments
To Estela Riviere for helping me in this project.
To all the contributors.
I thank Mr Jitendar P Vij (Group Chairman), Mr Ankit Vij (Group President), Ms Chetna Malhotra Vohra (Associate Director–Content Strategy), Ms Angima Shree (Senior Development Editor) and the production team of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, New Delhi, India for giving us a go-ahead at the very beginning and helping us in every way possible to bring out this book.