Title | Diagnosis and Management of Melanoma in Clinical Practice [electronic resource] / edited by Nigel Kirkham, Dennis W. K. Cotton, Roger C. Lallemand, John E. White, R. David Rosin |
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Imprint | London : Springer London, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1925-8 |
Descript | XIV, 190 p. 43 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource |
1 Epidemiology of Malignant Meloma -- Complexity and Dissonance -- Recall Bias -- Exposure -- Sex and Prognosis -- Age and the Neoplastic Process -- Rising Incidence Rates -- Rising Population Death Rates -- The Ozone Layer -- Prognosis as Function of Incidence -- Conclusion -- 2 Clinical Differential Diagnosis of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma -- Patients at Risk of Developing Melanoma -- Lentigo Maligna Melanoma -- Superficial Spreading Malignant Melanoma -- Nodular Melanoma -- Acral or Acral Lentiginous Melanoma -- Aids to Clinical Diagnosis -- 3 Differential Diagnosis of Malignant Melanoma by Algorithm -- Freckles (Ephelides) -- Seborrhoeic Warts -- Lentigo -- Lentigo Maligna (Hutchinsonโs Freckle) -- Junctional Naevus -- Superficial Spreading Malignant Melanoma -- Cafรฉ au Lait Patch -- Plane Warts -- Skin Tags -- Dermatofibroma (Histiocytoma) -- Seborrhoeic Wart (Basal Cell Papilloma) -- Compound Naevus -- Nodular Malignant Melanoma -- Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma -- Blue Naevus -- Giant Comedone -- Solar Keratoses -- Bowenโs Disease -- Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Basal Cell Carcinoma (Rodent Ulcer) -- Irritated Seborrhoeic Wart -- Pyogenic Granuloma -- Spitz Naevus -- Campbell de Morgan Spot (Cherry Angioma) -- Haemangioma -- 4 Clinical Diagnosis of Melanoma -- The Patientโs History -- Types of Malignant Melanoma and Presenting Features -- Accuracy in Diagnosis -- Aids to Clinical Diagnosis -- Image Analysis -- 5 Familial Melanoma -- Genetics -- Estimates of Risk of Melanoma -- Management of AMS Patients -- Non-melanoma Malignancy in the AMS Families -- Conclusions -- 6 The Histological Diagnosis of Cutaneous Melanoma -- Clinical Data -- Diagnostic Specimen -- Histological Features -- Melanoma -- Melanoma in Childhood -- Cutaneous Metastasis Versus (Second) Primary Melanoma -- Prognosis of Melanoma -- Routine Diagnostic Pathology Report of Melanoma -- 7 Histopathological Differential Diagnosis -- Benign Melanocytic Lesions with Histological Characteristics Normally Associated with Malignant Melanoma -- Dysplastic Naevi -- Conclusions -- 8 Prognostie Factors in Melanoma -- Localized Melanoma (Stage I) -- Regional Nodal Melanoma (Stage IIIa) -- Disseminated Melanoma (Stage IV) -- 9 Surgery for Malignant Melanoma -- Diagnostic Surgery -- Definitive Primary Treatment -- Later Aesthetic Plastic Surgery -- Curative Surgery for Metastases -- Palliative Surgery -- 10 Isolated Limb Perfusion -- Techniques of Isolated Limb Perfusion -- Indications for Isolated Limb Perfusion -- Results of Therapeutic Isolated Limb Perfusion -- Prophylactic Isolated Limb Perfusion -- Conclusions -- 11 Systemic Treatment of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma -- Single Agent Regimes -- Combination Regimes -- Dose Intensification -- Biological Therapy -- Conclusion -- 12 Progress and Prospects for Therapeutic Targeting Strategies for Disseminated Melanoma -- Introduction: The Problem of Disseminated Melanoma -- Possible Targeting Strategies -- Experimental Targeted Antimelanoma Therapy -- Conclusion -- 13 Psychological Aspects of Malignant Melanoma -- Psychosocial Problems -- Inadequacy of Information -- Treatment of Side Effects -- Psychiatric Morbidity -- Personality and Malignant Melanoma -- Psychological Aftercare