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Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology

  • Provides short descriptions of each entity, including clinical and pathological manifestations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment and prognosis

  • Includes the highest quality clinical and pathological figures and photographs from clinicians around the world

  • Provides figures of atypical forms of the entity, if present

  • Written for dermatologists, dermatopathologists, and dermatology residents

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Table of contents (83 entries)

  1. Reflectance Confocal Microscopy in Dermatology

    • Elisa Cinotti, Jean Luc Perrot, Bruno Labeille, Salvador González, Sara Bassoli, Caterina Longo et al.
  2. Sarcoidosis

    • Katerina Damevska, Snejina Vassileva, Kossara Drenovska, Slavica Kostadinova-Kunovska
  3. Skin and Skin Disease Throughout Life

    • Serena Gianfaldoni, Georgi Tchernev, Michael Tirant, Uwe Wollina, David Ernesto Castillo, Katlein França et al.
  4. Skin Disorders with Pruritus

    • Enas A. S. Attia, Azza E. Mostafa, Mona M. Atef
  5. Skin Drug Reactions

    • George-Sorin Tiplica, Carmen Maria Salavastru, Ionela Manole, Mihaela Tovaru
  6. Skin Wound Healing

    • Tanja Planinšek Ručigaj
  7. Soft-Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions

    • Riana Sanyal, David Terrano, Rajendra Singh, Robert Phelps
  8. Specific Dermatoses of Pregnancy

    • Yuval Ramot, Arieh Ingber
  9. Subcutaneous Fat

    • Virgínia Coelho de Sousa, Ana Brasileiro, Ana Sofia Borges, Rita Pinheiro, André Oliveira
  10. Syphilis and Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections

    • Suzana Ljubojević Hadžavdić, Jelena Krtanjek, Branka Marinović, Mihael Skerlev
  11. Systemic Disease and the Skin

    • James W. Patterson, Jessica Kwock, Richard Flowers, Darren Guffey, Laura Pruitt, Anne M. Stowman et al.
  12. The “Connective Tissue Diseases”

    • Adam Reich, Emiliano Antiga, Monika Bowszyc-Dmochowska, Aleksandra Dańczak-Pazdrowska, Adriana Polańska, Dominik Samotij et al.
  13. The Genital, Perianal, and Umbilical Regions

    • Piyush Kumar, Sanjay Khare, Santoshdev P. Rathod, Esther Nimisha, Meenaz Khoja, Sandeep Kulkarni et al.
  14. The Oral Cavity and Lips

    • Marcello Menta S. Nico, Silvia Vanessa Lourenço, Juliana Dumet Fernandes
  15. The Skin and the Eyes

    • Anup Kumar Tiwary, Piyush Kumar, Soumyajit Roychoudhury, Anupam Das, Adrija Datta, Raghuraj S. Hegde
  16. Trichoscopy

    • Subrata Malakar, Uttam Banerjee, Purva Mehta, Samipa Mukherjee, Souvik Sardar, Surit Malakar et al.
  17. Tropical Diseases of the Skin

    • Anup Kumar Tiwary, Piyush Kumar, Shilpa Vinay, Vikas Anand, Rizwana Barkat, Talat Fatima
  18. Urticaria and Mastocytosis

    • Ali Asilian, Fariba Iraji, Zabihollah Shahmoradi, Farahnaz Fatemi Naeini, Gita Faghihi, Fatemeh Mohaghegh et al.
  19. Vasculitis and Neutrophilic Dermatoses and Related Disorders

    • Viktoryia Kazlouskaya, Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins

About this book

Bringing together thousands of the best dermatologic clinical and pathological photographs and figures from researchers and scientists around the world, this volume focuses on the most prevalent dermatologic disorders as they relate to cutaneous anatomy, general dermatologic concepts, and biology and inherited disorders. It includes atypical presentations of various disorders, giving insight into differential diagnoses, helping to familiarize the reader with some of the rarest dermatologic disorders. 

Global Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology Volume 1 is written for dermatologists, dermatopathologists, and residents and summarizes data regarding any dermatologic disorder and syndrome. Each entry includes an introduction, clinical and pathological manifestations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment and prognosis. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pathology, Univ of Rochester School of Med, Rochester, USA

    Bruce Smoller

  • Khorramshahr, Iran

    Nooshin Bagherani

About the editors

Bruce Smoller, MD is Chair and Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor, and Professor, Department of Dermatology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Smoller began his career in pathology as a resident in anatomic and clinical pathology at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital. From there, he did a dermatopathology fellowship at Cornell Medical School/ New York Hospital under the tutelage of Dr. Scott McNutt. He remained on faculty at Cornell for several years before relocating to Stanford University in 1990 to assume the position as Director of Dermatopathology and rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology. In 1997, he relocated to the University of Arkansas where he became Chair of the Department of Pathology, in addition to his role as the Director of Dermatopathology. He remained there until 2011 when he was appointed to the position of Executive Vice President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. He spent nearly three years in that position before accepting the position at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Smoller has published more than 275 original articles, 42 book chapters and 15 textbooks of dermatopathology. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology and as the President of the American Society of Dermatopathology. He also received the Nickel Award from the American Society of Dermatopathology in recognition of lifetime excellence in teaching.


Nooshin Bagherani, MD, MA is dermatologist, bachelor of law, and master of international law. She graduated as a general practitioner from Arak University of Medical Sciences in 2003 and as a dermatologist from Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2010. In her dermatology residency, she learned dermatology under the tutelage Prof. Reza Yaghoobi, Dr. Mohammad Ali Mapar, Dr. Mohammad Omidian, Dr. Sima Rasaei, and Dr. Zahra Musavi, and cosmetology under training by Dr. Mohammad Radmanesh.

Dr. Bagherani has published more than 50 articles in the fields of dermatology and various basic sciences, six book chapters and one textbook of dermatology. She is on the editorial boards of many international dermatology journals, and several law journals. She also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple dermatologyand law journals.

In 2018, Dr. Bagherani received the award of Brilliant Talent for attaining the third national rank in the university entrance exam in her PhD field. In 2018 and 2019, she was named to Iran’s National Elites Foundation. In 2018, she received a Publons Peer Review Award for placing in the top 1% of reviewers in clinical medicine.

For many years, Dr. Bagherani worked as an independent researcher in her private offices in Khoramshar and Arak, Iran. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in molecular medicine at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Gholamreza Tavoosidana.


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