The Lymphoid Proliferation – A Comprehensive ok of Lymphocytic Infiltrates of the Skin

The "Cutaneous Lymphoid Proliferation: A Comprehensive Textbook of Lymphocytic Infiltrates of the Skin" provides a complete summary of the clinical features, phenotype, pathogenesis, histopathology, diagnosis, and treatment of lymphocytic infiltrates of the skin. It begins with a clinical atlas and introduction to the ontogeny and biology of the lymphoid system. The next section discusses novel molecular approaches to the diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoid proliferation and benign lymphocytic infiltrates. The remaining chapters focus on major inflammatory skin diseases and lymphoproliferative disorders, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, lupus, adult T cell leukemia, and primary cutaneous Hodgkin's disease. It provides hundreds of full colour, high quality clinical and histologic photographs. It integrates the biology, pathology, clinical features, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic management of these entities. It elucidates the role of the immune system in the pathogenesis of cutaneous disease. It discusses the relationship between therapeutic drugs and cutaneous eruptions. It covers drug reactions, and reviews insights from light microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and flow cytometry. It also incorporates useful tables throughout. With its authoritative treatment of both tumour and non tumour entities of the skin, this title is an invaluable resource for all dermatologists, dermatopathologists, oncologists, and general pathologists.

About the Author :
CYNTHIA M. MAGRO, M.D., is Professor of Pathology and Director of Dermatopathology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. She has published extensively in the areas of inflammatory skin disease, including collagen vascular disease, vasculitis, cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease, and unique drug hypersensitivity reactions. A significant focus of her work has been lymphocytic infiltrates, including unique forms of drug reactions such as the interstitial granulomatous drug reaction and drug associated reversible T cell dyscrasia; prelymphomatous cutaneous lymphoid dyscrasias including atypical lymphocytic lobular panniculitis pityriasis lichenoides chronica and pigmented purpuric dermatosis; and malignant T and B cell lymphomas. She has extended her work in immune mechanisms of skin disease and applied it to areas of lung transplantation and pulmonary fibrosis. A. NEIL CROWSON, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Surgery, and Director of Dermatopathology at the University of Oklahoma and Regional Medical Laboratory in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His current research interests focus on mechanisms of neoplastic and inflammatory skin disease. MARTIN C. MIHM, Jr., M.D., is Clinical Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in the pathology, diagnosis, and management of pigmented lesions, lymphoid disorders, and vascular tumors. He has worked extensively to understand the host response to melanoma and other tumors. He has served as codirector of the WHO Melanoma Program in addition to his many obligations in translational and clinical research in cutaneous inflammation, tumor vaccination, and pathogenesis of vascular lesions in children.