Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

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Summary: An Excellent Dermatology Reference!
Review: As a practicing optometrist, I continually see lesions of all types on peoples faces, and have always wanted an affordable dermatology reference to help me in assessing the risk associated with these lesions. I must say this text is everything I wanted, and then some. The text provides excellent, detailed diagnostic/background information to accompany the wonderful full color pictures, and is organized according to the type of lesion and underlying etiology. At 1,040 pages, it appears to cover the most important and common skin conditions seen. I expect it to become an often used reference in my optometry practice. This text will definitely help me decide when to refer a patient for further evaluation. I honestly wonder how such a great reference can be produced at this price, as most of my other texts are much more expensive. If you are looking for this type of text, I don't think you can lose with this one. The text I have reviewed is the fourth edition, copyright 2001.

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Summary: Extremely Helpful
Review: Concise and yet detailed enough to give a full explaination on the major skin diagnoses. Includes meds, path and photos. Great for anyone in field!

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Summary: Extremely Helpful
Review: Concise and yet detailed enough to give full explanations on the major skin diagnoses. Includes medications w/ its appropriate application and dispensable information, which I found very useful. The book also provides some pathology and has very clear photos. What i found most helpful was the color-coded mapping of lesions' distributions. This is a fabulous bible for anyone in the medical field or anyone who is interested in skin diseases.

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Summary: A clinical pearl
Review: I am a Certified Physician Assistant in family practice. I have used this book both as a student and as a professional and have found this to be an invaluable resource. The pictures are excellent, and more importantly, the discription and synopsis of each clinical situation is precise and reader friendly. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: It is an Excellent book for Dermatologists.
Review: I am Dr.Azeem Alam Khan,a consultant dermatologist from Pakistan.I have consulted this book alot while doing my M.Sc in clinical dermatology from St.John's Institute of Dermatology.It really helped me alot!.I find it an excellent book for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students.I shall be grateful If somebody can donate some of its copies for our hospital library.

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Summary: Great overview of Clinical Dermatology
Review: I enjoyed reading this book as a layperson, not having gone to medical school. I have a number of minor skin problems and this book allowed me to differentiate the insignificant ones from the ones I need to pay attention to. I think that this book should be in every household, because a person or parent should know what skin affliction(s) they have and how serious they are before they rush off to the doctor. One thing that should have been elaborated on more is the sub-section on The Nails as Clues to Multiorgan Disease. There are only a few pages of examples of this, yet there are dozens of correlations between abnormal fingernails and systemic disease. The book only gives blantant and graphic examples of serious nail problems and then gives the possible associated underlying disease. It should be expanded to include more "soft sign" nail problems to help doctors make educated guesses about what tests to run.

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Summary: Informative and Entertaining
Review: I found this book very informative and infact, the actual photos provide a very clear understanding of the disease or infection. This book contains information that anyone who would want to go into dermatology should know. Ranging from the Rocky Mountain spotted fever to the "hairy tongue", this book provides a broad range of symptoms in a way that is not hard to understand. My fourteen year old daugter, who is a sophmore in highschool, loves this book and says that it has sparked her interest in the medical feild. This book is a must!

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Summary: The Optometrist's Guide to Dermatology
Review: I have recently found that with this book I not only can diagnose lesions on the face, but also on almost every part of the body. As a result I now save my patients money by diagnosing them myself instead of having to refer them to a specialist. My only complaint about the book is that I feel it uses unnecessary jargon in places.

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Summary: EXCELLENT REFERENCE BOOK
Review: I have used this book throughout 2 years of medical school and it is one of the best dermatology references I have come across. It has also been a quick review for the the path seen with derm since the pictures are so clear and give a good representation of the path. An easy book to skim through before boards as well.

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Summary: WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-DOCUMENTED
Review: Shinning like a king's armour, the colours and synopses of this atlas made a thorough analysis of skin diseases.
Any medical student or practioner who needs a dermatological companion would find a reliable one in this atlas. The uncountable pictures, which featured in this new edition are both illustrative and descriptive. Everything about the book indicates sound research and documentation, (on the part of its authors). It is a superlative tool for both doctors and students: the type of book many people would like to keep as CD-ROMs.