About the Book
This illustrated encyclopedic reference covers the immunologic aspects of scientific cutaneous diseases and organizes them by disease category. The first eleven chapters provide a primer in basic immunology and the role of immune mechanisms in skin disease. The major part of the book presents all immunologic cutaneous diseases organized by specific type, based on category or immunologic mechanism. Sections include immunodeficiency disorders, cutaneous allergy, auto-immune bullous diseases, rheumatic diseases, immune complex diseases of the skin, reactive erythemas and other vasculitides, adverse immune reactions, cutaneous malignancies, and infections.
Table of Contents:
The immune system - an overview, Hong; the skin as an immunologic organ, Bergstresser; cellular immune mechanisms of skin disease, Norris and Weston; humoral mechanisms of skin disease, Geoghegan; inflammatory mediators, Goldyne et al; the mast cell, Tharp; the eosinophil, Leiferman; mechanisms of immune-mediated injury in the skin, Sell; the HLA system and cutaneous disease, Arnett and Hall; tumor immunology, Healt and Jegasothy; photo-immunology, Granstein and Parrish; the primary immunodeficiency syndromes, Herbert and Paller; cutaneous manifestations of complement deficiencies, Warner and Jordan; cutaneous manifestations of phagocytic disorders, Dahl; mucocutaneous candidiasis and candida infections, Ray; sarcoidosis, Hanno and Callen; epidemic of human immune deficiency syndrome and acquired deficiency syndrome, Safai and Gross; atopic dermatitis, Sampson and Hanifin; urticaria/angiodema and mastocytosis, Soter; allergic contact dermatitis, Tron and Sauder; photo-allergic contact dermatitis, Deleo and Toback; occupational skin disease, Tucker; pemphigus, Anhalt et al; bullous pemphigoid, Gammon; cicatrical and localized pemphigoid, Fine; herpes gestationis, Lawley and Yancey; epidermolysis bullosa acquisita, Woodley et al; dermatitis herpetiformis, Zone; linear IgA bullous dermatosis and chronic bullous dermatosis of childhood, Bean; lurpus erythematosus, Sontheimer and Provost; dermatomyositis, Callen; systemic scleroderma localized scleroderma, mixed connective tissue disease, Meurer et al; cutaneous manifestations of Sjogren's syndrome, Alexander and Provost; relapsing polychondritis, Rapini; vitiligo, Drucker et al; alopecia areata, Hordinsky; necrotizing vasculitis, Sams; henoch-sconlein purpura, Hall; erythema multiforme, Huff and Brice; erythema nodosum and gyrate erythemas, Troy and Goetz; pyoderma gangrenosum/Sweet's syndrome, Jackson and Duvic; drug reactions, Wintraob and Stern; cutaneous complications of immunosuppressive therapy, Hood and Kwan; grat-versus-host disease, Hymes et al; chemically-induced granuloma formation, Epstein and Fukuyama; malignant melanoma, Bystryn and Otatz; cutaneous T-Cell lymphomas, Edelson and Vejlsgaard; venereal diseases - syphilis, gonococcal infections, chancroid lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale, Jorizzo and McNeely; leprosy, Rea; papillomavirus infection, Lowy; immunologic features of psoriasis, Cooper and Baadsgaard; lichen planus, Ziegler.
