Pattern Analysis For Histopathologic Diagnosis Of Melanocytic Lesions A Guide To Practical Dermatopathology 1st Almut Berauer by Almut Böer-auer, Harald Kittler, Philipp Tschandl 9783031076657, 3031076656 instant download after payment.

Visual patterns can be defined as morphological features that follow a repeatable
scheme, allowing predictions to be made according to a given pattern. In
dermatology and dermatopathology, the predictions consist of clinical and
histopathological diagnoses. In our approach to patients with pigmented skin
tumors, we constantly use pattern analysis, even when we don’t realize we are
doing so; these patterns reflect our experience, both clinicopathological (i.e.,
experience acquired by working as physicians) and theoretical (i.e., experience
acquired by reading pertinent literature or listening to presentations).
On the other hand, a precise knowledge of various diagnostic patterns isparamount in order to allow us to recognize them properly. In this book,
Böer-Auer, Kittler, and Tschandl use pattern analysis as the main approach to
histopathological diagnosis of benign and malignant melanocytic tumors,
showing how this method can be effectively used in order to classify cases
correctly. Pattern analysis in dermatopathology is widely used for the classification
of inflammatory dermatoses and was developed mostly by one of the
giants of this field, A. Bernard Ackerman. Ackerman’s book on inflammatory
dermatoses diagnosed by pattern analysis is a masterpiece, and one of the rare
examples of a medical book still useful almost 50 years after its first
publication.
In this volume, Böer-Auer, Kittler, and Tschandl show that the same
method can be successfully applied to the histopathological diagnosis of
melanocytic tumors, allowing to classify cases by an integration of different
patterns and of other histopathological features. This book adds a new dimension
to the histopathological diagnosis of melanocytic tumors, by providing a
detailed and precise analysis of different patterns that can be recognized
under the microscope.