Advanced Dermatologic Diagnosis Hardcover Walter B. Shelley 1st Ed. 1992

Description: Preface Diagnosis ranges from the delight of the synaptic spark of instant recognition to the distress of seeing, but not quite knowing, what one sees. This is a book to reduce distress. It centers on elusive diagnoses. It summons diagnoses you know but have overlooked. It presents disorders you once knew but have somehow or somewhat forgotten. Finally, it alerts you to rarities you never knew were in the literature. Used properly, this book should be a cure for the anxiety of agnosia and anomia. This is a workbook for your office desk. It has a clinician-friendly retrieval system, based on a "looks like" principle. The major "lead-in" identifiable lesions, symptoms, or signs are alphabetized. Under these you will find the "reminds me of" crowd to be considered. We have tried to keep the "yawn index" of differential diagnosis as low as possible by presenting interesting cases and keeping tables and lists to a minimum. Photographs are interspersed and themes of typographic variation played. Aphorisms should appear just when you, the reader, begin to nod. This is a clinician's book. It attempts to bring life and sense into the field of sophisticated differential diagnosis. It presents an "expanded clinical mind," challenging you to be a better diagnostician. It should help you see whats in the skin and what s beneath. Always, it strives to reproduce the excitement generated by the master clinician John H. Stokes, who could summon and justify a dozen reasonable alternative diagnoses for what appeared to the rest of us as a mundane rash. Surely, a computer can out-perform this, but for us its printout is about as interesting and rewarding as last year's list of missing persons. This is an atlas for stargazing. Dermatology has a far richer legacy of classifiable disease than any other branch of medicine. At the time of Willan nearly two centuries ago the dermatologic heavens boasted only a score of disease constellations. Today, the trained eye discerns several thousand diagnostic constellations. Learn to recognize them. You will become starry-eyed with wonderment and your patients will call you a star. WALTER B. SHELLEY E. DORINDA SHELLEY

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