Dermoscopy: The Essentials: Expert Consult - Online and Print 2nd Edition

Dermoscopy has added an additional tool to the dermatologist to ascertain potential risks with pigmented lesions. It builds upon the initial three point checklist of (i) asymmetry, (ii) atypical network, and (iii) blue white strictures. The authors then take the reader through a wealth or examples to demonstrate the application of this approach. Some of the lesions are clearly at risk by observation but then when examining some which are indeterminate at first view the presentation demonstrates where the risks become clear.Chapter 2 expands to several other check lists for more specific diagnoses. There are four, five, six point check lists with again a wealth of images.Chapter 3 presents an excellent summary of clinical cases for review and analysis.The web site associated with the book is excellent and provides a portable means to refer to the entire text as well as the images. The web site if well organized and quite useful as both an alternative to the text and as an adjunct to it as well.It would have been useful for some discussion of the correlation of the pathology of melanoma and the images with dermoscopy, namely why are we seeing what we see, what cellular aberrations result in this and how does it correlate with the dermatopathologic examination. In addition there is also the issue of improved specificity and sensitivity using dermoscopy versus the classic approach. Namely how much improvement is there and what conditions must be observed to maintain them.Overall this is an exceptionally good introduction to dermoscopy.

This is a good book. The pictures are excellent. The traffice light system is very useful. The explanations of the decisions taken are detailed and helpful. For anyone interested in dermoscopy, they could do a lot worse than with this book.The only gripe I have about this book is that it tries too hard to be 'used friendly.' This is a personal issue: others may like the style it is written in.

I thought this book was an excellent way to learn what to look for with a dermoscope, for which there is surprisingly few resources available. I originally took the online 3M course, but it can be dry and a bit difficult to find. This book presents many cases so that you can build confidence in use of the device, hopefully decreasing unnecessary biopsies / procedures.

The book has plenty of photos and different dermatoscopic cases, is easy reading and has the option of adding it to on-line personal medical library !It came sooner than was estimated by amazon, and in exellent condition. As it was my first on-line order ,i`m very satisfied espesially with the purchasing prosess!

Too specific

It is irritating that authors see blue colour in photos where I clearly cannot see it. I am afraid that dermoscopy is stil not very developed discipline of science; common sense while deciding wheather or not to excise a sample is still fundamental.

plenty of good quality sample pictures with the classification done for you to test your ability to recognize the cancerous nevi.

This is an excellent introductory book to Dermoscopy. Very well written.

Expertly written n printed

As a family physician with an interest in dermatology, getting into dermoscopy required an approach. This book provides that and allows me to build my experience and confidence as I go. Get a good dermatoscope and this book. Read through a few pages and practice on each patient. Even better if you can take photos of lesions you come across and mark them as per book recommendations.

Skimpy pamphlet. It says "searchable full text online" on the cover but I am not prepared to investigate this further. I work at a computer all day and specifically chose not to have the kindle edition so I could read this on my lap at my leisure. I am surprised that no other reviewer has made comment on this. I wonder if I have been given the correct thing or whether they have changed the format. Itching to find out so please comment.

excellent for basics

a well written solid book on Dermoscopy (or Dermatoscopy if you prefer) ......today one seldom sees "barn-door/gross" melanomas....Dermatologists have new superb equipments to better distinguish benign and malignant lesions...with a far better pick-up rate of melanomas.