The melanocytic proliferations : a comprehensive textbook of pigmented lesions

A thorough updating of the best-selling, vital reference and textbook on melanocytic proliferations PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "Well-written and entertaining" — Modern Pathology "An extremely helpful guide for the practicing dermatopathologist or general pathologist" — Archive...

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Main Authors Crowson, A. Neil, Magro, Cynthia M., Mihm, Martin C.
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, N.J Wiley-Blackwell 2014
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Edition2
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ISBN9780470561553
0470561556
9781118488966
1118488962

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Table of Contents:
  • Large cell acanthoma -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figures 2.12A, B, 2.13A, B) -- Becker nevus -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figure 2.16) -- Ink spot lentigo -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figures 2.17, 2.18) -- Melasma -- Clinical features -- Histopathology (Figures 2.19, 2.20A, B) -- Pathogenesis -- Treatment -- Albright syndrome -- Clinical features -- Histology -- The café-au-lait macule -- Clinical features (Table 2.2) -- Histopathology (Figures 2.21, 2.22, 2.23 -- Table 2.2) -- Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figures 2.24, 2.25A, B) -- Chapter 3: Benign Acquired Nevi -- Broad overview of clinical features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1) -- Broad overview of the histologic features of the common acquired nevus (Table 3.1) -- Histopathology of the common acquired junctional nevus (Figures 3.1, 3.2 -- Table 3.1) -- Histopathology of the common acquired compound nevus (Figure 3.3 -- Table 3.1) -- Histopathology of the common acquired dermal nevus (Figures 3.4 through 3.10 -- Table 3.1) -- Other acquired benign nevi -- Balloon cell nevus -- Cockarde nevus -- Nevus spilus -- Problematic topics in the realm of the common acquired nevus -- Melanocytic nevi with focal atypical epithelioid cell components/inverted type A nevus/clonal nevi -- Compound and dermal nevi with mitotic activity (Figure 3.21) -- Effects of exogenous or endogenous hormones on nevocellular nevi -- Differential diagnosis of the common acquired nevus and its distinction from the dysplastic nevus -- Chapter 4: Dermal Dendritic Melanocytic Proliferations/Dermal Melanocytoses -- Introduction -- Common blue nevus of Jadassohn-Tieche -- Clinical features (see clinical figure 1.4.1) -- Histology (Figures 4.1 through 4.8) -- Epithelioid blue nevus -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figure 4.13) -- Cellular blue nevus
  • Management -- Molecular and immunohistochemical studies as an adjunct to diagnosis of Spitz nevus -- Chapter 6: Combined Nevus, Deep Penetrating Nevus, Plexiform Spindle Cell Nevus, and Borderline Tumors of the Deep Penetrating Nevus Variant -- Combined nevus -- Introduction and clinical features (Table 6.1) -- Histology (Figures 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 -- Table 6.1) -- Deep penetrating nevus -- Clinical features (Table 6.2) -- Gross pathology -- Histopathology (Figures 6.6 through 6.16 -- Table 6.2) -- Differential diagnosis -- Management -- Plexiform spindle cell nevus -- Introduction and clinical features (Table 6.2) -- Borderline tumor with deep penetrating nevus-like features -- Histopathology -- Cytogenetics -- Chapter 7: Recurrent Melanocytic Nevus -- Introduction and clinical features (Table 7.1) -- Histopathology (Figures 7.1 through 7.8 -- Table 7.1) -- Differentiation from melanoma with regression and recurrent melanoma (Figures 7.9 through 7.20) -- Grading atypia in recurrent nevi -- Chapter 8: Congenital Nevi -- Introduction and clinical features (Table 8.1) -- Histology (Figures 8.1 through 8.17 -- Table 8.1) -- Proliferative nodules in congenital nevi -- Clinical features and differential diagnosis (Table 8.2) -- Summary of Pathologic features of benign proliferative nodule (Figures 8.18 through 8.24 -- Table 8.2) -- Treatment -- Molecular profile -- Chapter 9: Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi, De Novo Intradermal Epithelioid and Lentiginous Melanocytic Dysplasias, and Nevi at Specific Anatomic Sites -- Dysplastic melanocytic nevus -- Introduction -- Clinical features (Table 9.1) -- Histology (Table 9.1 -- Figures 9.11 through 9.34) -- Incipient junctional dysplastic nevus/de novo melanocytic dysplasia of lentiginous type/atypical lentigenous melanocytic hyperplasia with architectural features of dysplastic nevus
  • Clinical features (see clinical figure 1.4.2) -- Gross pathology -- Histology (Figures 4.14 through 4.27) -- Differential diagnosis -- Nevi of Ota and Ito -- Clinical features (Table 4.1) (see clinical figures 1.4.5 and 1.4.6) -- Histology (Figures 4.28 and 4.29) -- Treatment -- Mongolian spot -- Clinical features (see clinical figures 1.4.7 and 1.4.8) -- Histology (Figures 4.30 and 4.31) -- Sun's nevus -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figure 4.32) -- Dermal melanocyte hamartoma -- Clinical features -- Histopathology (Figure 4.33) -- Chapter 5: Spitz Nevus -- Introduction -- Clinical features -- Classical compound Spitz nevus -- Clinical features (Table 5.1) -- Histology (Figures 5.1 through 5.18 -- Table 5.1) -- Differential diagnosis -- Dermal Spitz nevus and its nonmelanocytic mimics: neurothekeoma, epithelioid cell histiocytoma, plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumor, and epithelioid angiosarcoma -- Introduction and clinical features -- Histology (Figures 5.19, 5.20, 5.21) -- Differential diagnosis -- Sclerosing or desmoplastic Spitz nevus/desmoplastic nevus -- Clinical features and introduction (Table 5.2) -- Histology (Figures 5.22 through 5.28 -- Table 5.2) -- Differential diagnosis -- Pagetoid intraepidermal Spitz nevus -- Clinical features -- Histology (Figures 5.29 and 5.30) -- Differential diagnosis -- Pigmented spindle cell nevus -- Clinical features (Table 5.3) -- Histology (Figures 5.31 through 5.38 -- Table 5.3) -- Pigmented epithelioid cell nevus -- Clinical features and histology -- Differential diagnosis -- Management -- Superficial atypical Spitz tumor/plaque-type Spitz nevus -- Clinical features and introduction -- Histology (Figures 5.40 and 5.41) -- Conventional deep variant of the atypical Spitz tumor -- Introduction and clinical features -- Histology (Figures 5.42 through 5.50) -- Differential diagnosis (Figures 5.51, 5.52, 5.53)
  • Other rare manifestations of the morphologic diversity of melanoma
  • Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Disclosure -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1: An Approach to the Clinical Diagnosis of Melanoma, Its Precursors, and Its Clinical Mimics -- Introduction -- Incidence and risk -- Precursors to melanoma -- Approach to the patient -- Initial encounter -- History -- Physical examination -- Approach to the individual pigmented lesion -- Summary -- Atlas of Clinical Lesions Correlating to Various Entities Discussed in the Text -- Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines -- Chapter 3: Benign Acquired Nevi -- Chapter 4: Dermal Dendritic Melanocytic Proliferations/Dermal Melanocytoses -- Chapter 5: Spitz Nevus -- Chapter 6: Combined Nevus, Deep Penetrating Nevus, and Plexiform Spindle Cell Nevus -- Chapter 7: Recurrent Melanocytic Nevus -- Chapter 8: Congenital Nevi -- Chapter 9: Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevi, De Novo Intraepidermal Epithelioid and Lentinginous Melanocytic Dysplasias, and Nevi at Specific Anatomic Sites -- Chapter 10: Melanoma -- Chapter 11: Conjunctival Melanocytic Proliferations -- Chapter 2: Freckles and Lentigines -- Freckles (ephelides) -- Clinical features -- Histopathology (Figure 2.1) -- Differential diagnosis -- Dowling-Degos disease -- Clinical features -- Histopathology -- Lentigines: Lentigo simplex and the lentiginoses -- Clinical features -- Histopathology (Figures 2.3A, B) -- Mucosal lentigines -- Labial melanotic macule -- Genital lentigines -- Vulvar and penile melanosis -- Acral lentigines -- Melanotic macule of the nail matrix -- Actinic (solar) lentigo -- Clinical features -- Histopathology (Figures 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11) -- Differential diagnosis -- Pigmented actinic keratosis (Figure 2.14) -- PUVA-induced lentigines (PUVA therapy/tanning beds/xeroderma pigmentosum) -- Clinical features -- Histopathology (Figure 2.15)
  • Lentiginous junctional and compound dysplastic nevus -- De novo intraepidermal epithelioid melanocytic dysplasia -- Immunohistochemical stains as a diagnostic adjunct -- Nevomelanocytic proliferations peculiar to specific anatomic sites -- Vulvar nevus -- Histopathology (Figures 9.39 through 9.51) -- Acral melanocytic nevus -- Atypical ear nevus -- Halo nevus (Figure 9.70) -- Chapter 10: Melanoma -- Introduction -- Specific subtypes of melanoma -- Superficial spreading melanoma -- Lentigo maligna melanoma -- Acral lentiginous melanoma -- Mucosal and paramucosal melanoma -- Lentiginous melanoma -- Introduction and clinical features (Table 10.2) -- Vertical growth phase of melanoma -- Introduction and clinical features -- Histology -- Prognostication including microstaging of melanoma -- Survival based on tumor thickness for melanoma -- Unusual histologic and clinical variants of melanoma -- Desmoplastic melanoma (Figures 10.26 and 10.27, 10.74 through 10.86) -- Minimal-deviation melanoma/nevoid borderline melanocytic tumor (Figures 10.87 through 10.92) (see also Chapter 14) -- Spitzoid melanoma (Figures 10.93 and 10.94) -- Nevoid melanoma (Figures 10.55 and 10.56, 10.95 and 10.96) -- Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma and equine/animal-type melanoma in humans: melanomas with prominent pigment synthesis (Figures 10.97 through 10.107) (also see Chapter 14) -- Malignant blue nevus (Figures 10.108 through 10.112) -- Melanoma with concomitant atypical squamous epithelial cell proliferations (Figure 10.113) -- Cutaneous clear cell sarcoma -- Metaplastic change in melanoma (Figure 10.114) -- Balloon cell melanoma -- Metastatic melanoma (Figures 10.115 through 10.117) -- Myxoid melanoma (Figures 10.118 and 10.119) -- Signet ring melanoma (Figure 10.120) -- Small cell melanoma (Figures 10.121 through 10.123) -- Melanoma in childhood (Figures 10.122, 10.123)