¿¿This new edition of the popular 2007 original text is completely updated with full color, high quality photographs and illustrations for easy reference by dermatologists, dermatology residents, primary care and emergency medicine physicians. Presented in an easily accessible manner, this second edition discusses more than 40 diseases that could lead to serious medical consequences, including death. Organized alphabetically and focusing more heavily on dermatopathology than its predecessor, Deadly Dermatologic Diseases, Second Edition contains a single clinical photograph accompanied by three photomicrographs that detail the diagnostic features of each case. Additionally, each subsection discusses a disease prognosis with a current bibliography in a succinct, bulleted manner, making this a must-have reference for clinicians and pathologists alike.¿

Part I. Malignant Cutaneous Neoplasms.- 1. Angiosarcoma.- 2. Cutaneous B-Cell Lymphoma.- 3. Granulomatous Slack Skin.- 4. Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.- 5. Leukemia Cutis.- 6. Mast Cell Disease (Urticaria Pigmentosa).- 7. Merkel Cell Carcinoma.- 8. Metastatic Carcinoma.- 9. Paget's Disease.- 10. Subcutaneous Panniculitis-like Lymphoma.- Part II. Hereditary Cancer-Predisposition Syndromes and Paraneoplastic Disorders.- 11. Muir-Torre Syndrome.- 12. Acquired Ichthyosis, Acanthosis Nigricans, Palmar Hyperkeratosis.- 13. Amyloidosis: Systemic, Nodular, and Epidermal Derived.- 14. Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome.- 15. Cowden's Syndrome.- 16. Gyrate Erythemas: Erythema Gyratum Repens and Erythema Chronicum Migrans.- 17. Gardner Syndrome .- 18. Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis.- 19. Multiple Cutaneous Leiomyomas.- 20. Lethal Non-Langerhans Cell Histiocytoses: Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma and Xanthoma Disseminatum.- 21. Pancreatic Panniculitis.- 22. Scleromyxedema.- 23. Necrolytic Migratory Erythema.- Part III. Infectious Diseases.- 24. Anthrax.- 25. Ecthyma Gangrenosum.- 26. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and the Rickettsioses.- 27. Smallpox.- 28. Staphylococcal Toxin-Mediated Scalded Skin and Toxic Shock Syndromes.- 29. Meningococcemia and Purpura Fulminans.- Part IV. Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Autoimmune Disease.- 30. Lethal Hereditary Vascular Disorders: Osler-Weber-Rendu, Ataxia-Telangiectasia, and Fabry's Disease.- 31. Eruptive Xanthoma.- 32. Graft-versus-Host Disease.- 33. Paraneoplastic Pemphigus and Pemphigus Vulgaris.- 34. Relapsing Polychondritis.- Part V. Vascular Diseases.- 35. Calciphylaxis (Calci¿c Uremic Arteriolopathy).- 36. Kawasaki Disease.- 37. Polyarteritis Nodosa.