Clinical Dermatology - Tapa blanda

"This is an excellent clinical textbook for undergraduate dermatology. It illustrates almost all conditions with a colour photograph and explanations are clarified by simple colour diagrams." Sphincter, Liverpool Medical School Gazette "An excellent text, profusely illustrated with good colour photographs and lucid diagrams and tables ... a useful formulary at the end, giving equivalent British and American preparations." BMJ "this textbook will become the most popular in its field with general practitioners." British Journal of General Practice "a successful book is one you feel you really want to open and read rather than feel you have to. The layout ... brilliantly succeeds in enticing you to look further. Every page spread is different - diagrams, tables, colour photos and pertinent 'learning points' abound." Best books on Dermatology. BMJ

This book acknowledges that clinical dermatology is a visual speciality. The route to diagnostic understanding is a combination of access to photographic material combined with a simple scheme for recognising primary skin lesions. Many diagrams and colour plates have been used to clarify educational points (100 line drawings) and clinical descriptions (200 colour plates). The book contains chapters which cover all the common skin diseases in the context of their underlying pathological processes and the way in which disturbances of the function of the sking produce recognisable physical signs. These are punctuated by short, sometimes witty, learning points. It also includes chapters which set skin disease in perspective (including skin and psyche), describe the structure and function of the skin an review immunology of the skin. At the end of the book there is an important chapter on drug interactions and a comprehensive section of dermatological therapy followed by a formulary. The formulary includes preparations used in both the UK and USA. Drugs are referred to by both approved and trade names.