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Fast Facts: Psoriasis, 3rd edn
By Jonathan Barker,
Alan Menter and
Catherine Smith
Published 2008
108 pages, 29 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-903734-03-2
$25.00 (Our delivery cost is a flat fee of $9.00 so the more you order the better!)
Fast Facts: Psoriasis provides the busy practitioner with 108 pages of practical information on all aspects of this increasingly treatable disease. Now in its third edition, this comprehensive handbook embraces the full spectrum of the disease, from localized plaques to generalized disease and psoriatic arthritis. Highlights include:
- a well-illustrated guide to clinical presentation and differential diagnosis
- fully updated treatment chapters, covering the wide array of current and emerging therapeutic agents
- a commonsense approach to management by rotating and combining therapies
- discussion of the comorbid conditions so often overlooked
- concise review of the immunologic and genetic aspects of the disease
- a clear summary of the new classification scheme for psoriatic arthritis
Fast Facts: Psoriasis is recommended for the whole primary care team, trainee dermatologists, and established dermatologists and rheumatologists who need a quick refresher.
Contents
Epidemiology and pathophysiology; Clinical presentation; Differential diagnosis; General management approach; Topical Therapy; Phototherapy and photochemotherapy; Systemic therapy; Receptor-targeted therapies; Psoriatic arthritis; Future trends
Review
‘I would certainly recommend this book as an extremely useful guide for fellow trainee dermatologists and also for established dermatologists who have gone a bit rusty!’ Clinical and Experimental Dermatology about Fast Facts: Psoriasis, 2nd edn
The authors
Jonathan Barker
MD FRCP, FRCPath Professor of Clinical Dermatology and Head of Division of Skin Sciences, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
Alan Menter
MD Chief, Department of Dermatology, Baylor Medical Center, Dallas and Clinical Professor, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, USA
Catherine Smith
MD FRCP Senior Lecturer and Consultant Dermatologist, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
