VisualDx: Essential Adult Dermatology combines a desk reference and a powerful online decision support system to give you point-of-care assistance in diagnosing and managing adult skin diseases. The book is organized by symptoms and visual clues and covers 195 skin disorders, with over 800 full-color illustrations and detailed information on diagnostic criteria, skin characteristics, best laboratory tests, differential diagnosis, and characteristics of the condition in immunocompromised patients and those with darker skin colors. An additional chapter covers dermatologic therapy.
The online clinical decision support system enables you to search by patient findings, such as symptoms and lesion features, to obtain a visual differential diagnosis. Thousands of images show both typical and variant disease presentations. Patient information sheets are also included.
ISBN/ISSN
9781608318056
Product Format
Hardcover Book
Trim Size
8.375 x 10.875
Pages
624
Illustration
877
Table
15
Series
VisualDx: The Modern Library of Visual Medicine
Publication Date
April 15, 2010
Weight
4.25
Noah Craft MD, PhD, DTM&H
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Divisions of Dermatology and Adult Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, CA
Lindy P. Fox MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Lowell A. Goldsmith MD, MPH
Emeritus Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Art Papier MD
Associate Professor of Dermatology and Medical Informatics, Department of Dermatology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY
Ron Birnbaum MD
Resident in Dermatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Mary Gail Mercurio MD
Associate Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY
Daniel Miller MD
Resident in Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Priya Rajendran MD
Resident in Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Michael Rosenblum MD, PhD
Resident in Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Emma Taylor MD
Resident in Dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, CA
Paul Camille Tumeh MD
Resident in Dermatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Multiple Lesions or Rash in the Well Adult Erythemas Lesions with Prominent Pigmentary Changes Lesions with Vascular Changes Smooth Papules, Plaques, Nodules Scaly or Crusted Papules & Plaques Fluid-Filled (Vesicles, Pustules, Bullae) Atrophy/Sclerosis Erosions/Ulcers
Multiple Lesions or Rash in the Febrile, Ill, or Toxic-Appearing Adult
Single Lesion or Growth Lumps & Bumps
Special Locations Scalp Nails Perineum Mouth
DERMATOLOGICAL THERAPIES
--Over 800 full-color images and 195 of the most common skin disorders --Organized by symptoms and visual clues --Highlights variants by location, morphology, and skin color --Includes common mistakes and clinical pearls --Outlines simple tests to order or perform --Provides practical therapy and management -- The online VisualDx decision support system is a powerful point-of-care clinical tool.
Functionality allows you to search by patient findings, such as lesion features, disease distribution, onset of disease, and symptoms and signs in other organ systems, to obtain a visual differential diagnosis.
VisualDx searches structured relationships between patient findings and diagnoses, derived from the medical literature. This yields much more accurate, comprehensive, targeted, and patient-specific differential diagnoses than generic search engines that search text or medical references organized by diagnosis.
Website contains thousands of images showing both typical and variant disease presentations.
Patient information sheets are included.
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