Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management

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 stagesIncludes succinct guidelines, schematics, and figures for busy cliniciansConcludes 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 INDICE: 1. Melanoma epidemiology and risk factors2. Diagnosis of primary melanoma3. Staging of melanoma patients4. Therapy of melanoma5. Follow-up of disease-free patients6. Special clinical situations

• ISBN: 978-0-12-804000-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés