This book combines superb colour photographs and explanatory colour diagrams with concisely written and clinically focussed text to provide the reader with an outstanding illustrated resource in dermatology.

Each chapter is consistently organised and lavishly illustrated to give a thorough overview of the subject area and a visual reference that will enable the reader to recognise the full range of presenting signs likely to be seen in everyday practice.

Each chapter concentrates on the clinical appearance and pathological features of a variety of skin conditions. Explanatory diagrams supplement the clinical photographs and serve to illustrate and clarify relevant causative agents and underlying pathology. The text is comprehensive yet succinct and gives a brief discussion of cause, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, investigations and principles of management.

• Profusion of high quality clinical photographs
• Covers symptoms, signs, diagnostic investigations and management issues for each condition.
• Comprehensive yet approachable coverage of dermatology
• Contains core information necessary to ensure success in examinations

The structure and function of the skin. Diagnosing and treating skin disease. Cutaneous infections. Tumours and Naevi. Inflammatory Dermatoses. Infiltrative disorders. Bullous diseases. Systemic disease and the skin. Disorders of hair and nails. Disorders of pigmentation. Genoderatoses.

By Robin Graham-Brown, BSc, MB, FRCP, Consultant Dermatologist, Leicester Royal Infirmary; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Dermatology, University of Leicester School of Medicine; Director of Services for Older People, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK; and Johnny Bourke, MD, MRCPI Cork, Consultant Dermatologist, South Infirmary, Victoria Hospital, Cork, Ireland