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Practical Dermatology
Beth G. Goldstein and Adam O. Goldstein, 328 pages, 211 illus, $51.95, ISBN 0-8151-3542-4, St Louis, Mo, Mosby-Year Book Inc, 1992.
John W. Richards, Jr, MD, Reviewer
Private Practice Augusta, Ga
Section Editor, Michael L. Adler, MD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(7):702-703.
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Perhaps not a day goes by that a family physician does not encounter a patient with a rash. With common complaints of red spots, scaly skin, or terrible itching, dermatology is an intricate part of family medicine.
Practical Dermatology, by Beth and Adam Goldstein (she is a dermatologist and he, a family physician), is a book that will fill a void on many clinicians' bookshelves. The book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the art of dermatology. This includes the dermatologic basics (terminology, differential diagnoses, and pitfalls in diagnoses), dermatologic therapies (topical agents, corticosteroid agents, patientcentered therapy, and pitfalls of treatment), diagnostic procedures (potassium hydroxide preparation, fungal culture, scabies test, Tzanck smear, Wood's light examination, cryosurgery, curettage, electrodesiccation, and shave and punch biopsies, as well as shave, punch, snip, elliptical, and cyst excisions), and preventive dermatology (occupational and environmental).
Discussions of the common skin dermatoses are found in
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