312 Pages 176 Color Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Darkening patches on the skin can result in great distress for the patient. However, definitive diagnosis between the many possible causes and effective treatment can be very hard for the medical practitioner to achieve. This is the first major professional reference with systematic coverage of diagnosis and the various treatment options, and it will be an indispensable clinical reference.

    CONTENTS

    I Histology, Physiology, and Pathophysiology of Skin Pigmentation

    1 The color of the skin
    Rashmi Sarkar

    2 The melanocyte and melanogenesis
    Dimitrios Xekardakis, Sabine Krueger-Krasagakis, and Konstantinos Krasagakis

    3 Melanin
    M. Badawy Abdel-Naser, Sabine Krueger-Krasagakis, and
    Konstantinos Krasagakis

    4 Pathophysiology of hyperpigmentation
    Shalini B. Reddy and Neelam Vashi

    II Disorders of Hyperpigmentation

    5 Melasma
    Clio Dessinioti and Andreas Katsambas

    6 Erythema dyschromicum perstans
    Vassiliki Tzanetakou and Electra Nicolaidou

    7 Lichen planus pigmentosus
    Ffstratios Vakirlis and Dimitrios Ioannides

    8 Primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis
    Elena Sotiriou

    9 Mastocytosis
    Michael P Makris

    10 Pityriasis versicolor
    Rashmi Sarkar and Vanya Narayan

    11 Atrophoderma of Pasini-Pierini
    Elizabeth Lazaridou

    12 Poikilderma of Civette

    Alexander C Katoulis and Nikolaos G. Stavrianeas

    13 Pigmented non melanocytic skin lesions
    Elvira Moscarella, Simonetta Piana, Caterina Longo, and Giuseppe Argenziano

    14 Drug-induced hyperpigmentation
    Raimonds Karls

    15 Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation
    Torello Lotti, Tommaso Tanini, Maja Kovacevic, and Serena Gianfaldoni

    16 Linear hyperpigmentation
    Chee Leok Goh

    17 Flagellate hyperpigmentation
    Clarissa Prieto Herman Reinehr, Juliano Peruzzo, and Tania Cestari

    18 Reticular hyperpigmentation
    Alexander C Katsoulis and Efthymia Sourra

    19 Genodermatoses
    Aikaterini Patsatsi

    III Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis

    20 Clinical examination
    Clarissa Prieto Herman Reinehr, Juliano Peruzzo, and Tania Cestari

    21 Wood's Lamp
    Juliano Peruzzo, Clarissa Prieto Herman Reinehr, and Tania Cestari

    22 Dermoscopy
    Teresa Deinlein and Iris Zalaudek

    23 Histopathology
    Almut Böer-Auer

    24 Reflectance confocal microscopy

    Caterina Longo, Maurizio Greco, Silvana Ciardo, and Giovanni Pellacani

    25 Spectrophotometry
    Riccardo Pampena

    26 Diagnostic algorithms
    Stamatis Gregoriou

    27 Differential diagnosis of circumscribed and diffuse hyperpigmentation
    Maria Kyriazopoulou and Efstathios Rallis

    IV Treatment

    28 Cosmetic camouflage for pigmentation issues
    Zoe Diana Draelos

    29 Sunscreens
    Pauline Lecerf

    30 Medical therapy

    Dimitrios Rigopoulos, Alexander C Katoulis, Efthymia Sourra, and Antigone Alevizou

    31 Chemical peels
    Myrto Trakatelli, Kostantinos Kalokasidis, and Paola Pasquali

    32 Cryotherapy
    Paola Pasquali and Myrto Trakatelli

    33 Electrosurgery
    Maria Tsoukas and Jeremiah Au

    34 Lasers

    Maria Tsoukas, Monica Boen, Caroline Doo, and Benjamin C Garden

    35 Intense Pulsed Light

    Owen Kramer, Benjamin C Garden, and Maria Tsoukas

    Index

    Biography

    Dimitris Rigopoulos, MD, PhD

    Professor of Dermatology-Venereology

    Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    Alexander Katoulis, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor of Dermatology-Venereology

    Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens