Dermatoscopy and skin cancer : a handbook for hunters of skin cancer and melanoma

Chapter 1: Introduction to dermatoscopy

1.1 Why use a dermatoscope?
1.2 What is a dermatoscope?
1.3 Colours in dermatoscopy
1.4 Differences between polarised andnon-polarised dermatoscopy
1.5 Uses of dermatoscopy for conditions otherthan tumours

Chapter 2: Skin -- the organ

2.1 Skin as an organ
2.2 Embryology of skin
2.3 The microanatomy of skin

Chapter 3: Dermatopathology fordermatoscopists

3.1From the scalpel to the microscope
3.2 The histology of normal skin
3.3 Terminology used indermatopathology
3.4 Dermatoscopic histologicalcorrelation of neoplastic lesions

Chapter 4:The language of dermatoscopy: naming and defining structures and patterns

4.1 The evolution of metaphoric terminology for dermatoscopicstructures and patterns
4.2 Revised pattern analysis of lesions pigmented by melanin
4.3 Patterns in revised pattern analysis
4.4 The process of revised pattern analysis
4.5 Revised pattern analysis applied to lesions with whitestructures
4.6 Revised pattern analysis applied to lesions with orange, yellow and skin-coloured structures
4.7 Revised pattern analysis applied to vessel structures andpatterns
4.8 The cognition of dermatoscopy

Chapter 5: The skin examination

5.1 The skin check consultation
5.2 Photo-documentation
5.3 Patient safety: tracking specimens and self-audit
5.4 The lives of lesions

Chapter 6:Chaos and clues: a decision algorithm for pigmented lesions

6.1 Chaos and clues
6.2 Chaos
6.3 Clues
6.4 Exceptions
6.5 Excluding unequivocal seborrhoeic keratoses from biopsy

Chapter7: Prediction without pigment: a decision algorithm for non-pigmented skinlesions

7.1 Prediction without pigment
7.2 Prediction without pigment: short version
7.3 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Pattern analysis

8.1Revised pattern analysis -- a diagnostic algorithm
8.2An aide-memoire for revised pattern analysis of pigmented skin lesions
8.3Applying the aide-memoire in practice

Chapter 9: Dermatoscopic features of common andsignificant lesions: pigmented and non-pigmented

9.1Melanoma: pigmented and non-pigmented
9.2Melanocytic naevi: pigmented and non-pigmented
9.3Basal cell carcinoma: pigmented and non-pigmented
9.4Benign keratinocytic lesions
9.5Actinic keratosis, squamous cell carcinoma insitu and squamous cell carcinoma
9.6Dermatofibroma and dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
9.7Haemangioma and other vascular lesions
9.8Merkel cell carcinoma
9.9Atypical fibroxanthoma
9.10Adnexal tumours
9.11Neurofibroma
9.12Molluscum contagiosum
9.13Cutaneous lymphoma
9.14Kaposi sarcoma

Index