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Fully revised and updated the second edition is full of practical advice, clinical photographs, useful algorithms, and management plans, making
Paediatric Dermatology an accessible, indispensable guide for all healthcare professionals faced with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children with skin diseases.
List of contents
- Section 1: Basics of dermatology
- 1: Structure and function of the skin
- 2: The dermatological consultation
- 3: Dermatological treatments
- 4: Patterns, shapes, and distribution in skin disease
- 5: Endocrine dysfunction and the skin
- 6: Faltering growth and the skin
- Section 2: Neonatal
- 7: Neonatal skin problems
- 8: Vascular birthmarks
- Section 3: Diagnosis by body distribution
- 9: Skin problems of the face, nose, eyelids, and ears
- 10: Oral problems
- 11: Trunk and flexures
- 12: Hands, feet, and limbs
- 13: Genital skin disorders
- 14: Hair and scalp disorders
- 15: Nail changes
- 16: Photosensitivity
- Section 4: Rashes
- 17: Eczema and related itchy rashes
- 18: Acne and acneiform rashes
- 19: Pustular rashes
- 20: Papular rashes
- 21: Urticarial and urticarial-like rashes
- 22: Psoriasis, red rashes and erythroderma
- 23: Cutaneous drug reactions
- 24: Abuse and self-inflicted disease
- Section 5: Textural skin changes
- 25: Blisters
- 26: Crusts, scabs, and eschars
- 27: Dry skin disorders
- 28: Lumps and bumps
- 29: Changes in skin thickness and elasticity
- 30: Ulceration of the skin
- Section 6: Discolouration of the skin
- 31: Purple colouration
- 32: White colouration
- 33: Brown colouration
- 34: Moles (melanocytic naevi)
- 35: Blue, grey, and black colouration
- 36: Red colouration
- 37: Yellow or orange colouration
- Section 7: Rashes in rheumatology and transplant patients
- 38: Skin changes associated with rheumatological disease
- 39: Rashes associated with transplantations
About the author
Sue Lewis-Jones (Hon consultant in dermatology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee), has over 40 years clinical experience in paediatric dermatology. Research interests include Quality of Life (QoL) in children. Co copyright holder of 3 QoL Questionnaires: Children's Dermatology Life Quality Index (CDLQI), Dermatitis Family Index (DFI) and the Infants Dermatology QoL index (IDQoL). Chair of NICE Guideline CG057 for management of atopic eczema in children under 12 and Chair of NICE quality standards for this guideline. Author of many articles and reviews on eczema and QOL in childhood skin diseases. Past Chair of the British Society for Paediatric Dermatology, past Chair of the Scottish Dermatological Society, and past Convenor for Dermatology for the Royal College Paediatrics and Child Health. Past member of Skills for Health Dermatology Strategy Group and development of competences for dermatology. National and international lecturer and Hon lecturer in dermatology University of Addis Ababa.
Dr Murphy is a Consultant Dermatologist at Sheffield University Teaching Hospital and the Dental Hospital and Sheffield Children's Hospital. She is a Councillor for the International Psoriasis Council and is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal diseases. She does paediatric clinics at Nottingham University Children's and is Associate Professor of Dermatology in Nottingham from where she continues her research interest in paediatric psoriasis, vulval, and connective tissue disease. She is President of the British Association of Dermatologists and Immediate Past President of the British Society of Paediatric Dermatology. As previous Chair of the Specialty Advisory Committee to the Royal College of Physicians, she has a personal and professional interest in medical Education at all levels and is committed to improving the diagnosis and treatment of children with skin disease.
Summary
Fully revised and updated the second edition is full of practical advice, clinical photographs, useful algorithms, and management plans, making Paediatric Dermatology an accessible, indispensable guide for all healthcare professionals faced with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children with skin diseases.
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Review from previous edition The book's strength lies in the wide range of topics, given its compact size...There is an impressive amount of information packed into this little book. Physicians caring for children will find it useful in their everyday practice.
