Blistering Skin Diseases

Lawrence S. Chan, MD
Professor of Dermatology and Head of Department of Dermatology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, USA

This book aims to provide the definitive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of various blistering skin diseases. It offers the reader a succinct clinical description for quick recognition of different types of blistering diseases and their relative urgency. It also provides information on the clinical features of blistering skin diseases, differential diagnoses, laboratory findings, and therapeutic strategy. There is also a section on pathogenesis to enhance the readers understanding on the molecular events underlying the blistering disease process.

This book will be useful for dermatologists in training and in practice, physicians working in emergency departments, candidates for post-registration qualifications, general practitioners and medical students.

Contents

1. Overview of blistering skin diseases
2. Diagnostic Methods for blistering skin diseases
3. Autoimmune blistering skin diseases
4. Heritable blistering skin diseases
5. Inflammation-mediated blistering skin diseases
6. Metabolic blistering skin diseases
7. Infection-mediated blistering skin diseases
8. Palmar plantar pustular dermatoses

Physician resources

Patient resources

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Index