Title | : | Cutaneous Melanoma |
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Author | : | Giuseppe Argenziano, Aimilios Lallas, Caterina Longo, Elvira Moscarella, Athanassios Kyrgidis & Gerardo Ferrara |
Release | : | 2017-08-15 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Medical, Books, Professional & Technical |
Size | : | 40161578 |
Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management serves as an easy-to-consult, short, and schematic reference providing guidelines for diagnosing and managing melanoma in the context of various clinical scenarios. In the daily routine of a busy clinician, there is a need for schematic reference tools that allow quick consultation for immediate decisions. Melanoma is a deadly disease that should be promptly managed following precise and evidence-based guidelines. The guide contains many schematics and figures, vastly outnumbering the pages dedicated to text. This guide follows the sequence of a real clinical setting, going from the first screening visit to the final stages of terminal patients. - Provides a quick-access resource for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma patients at all stages - Includes succinct guidelines, schematics, and figures for busy clinicians - Concludes with a section addressing special clinical situations, including melanoma in pregnancy, pediatric melanoma, familial melanoma and MPM, atypical Spitz tumor, occult primary melanoma, and the histopathologic gray zone |