Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors A Guide to Pathologic Diagnosis

This illustrated reference offers guidance in the pathologic diagnosis of adnexal tumours of the skin. The authors describe the most frequently encountered troublesome lesions in a systematic fashion, with simplified nosologic constructs and a practical approach to accurate histologic diagnosis. More than 550 colour illustrations depict the diverse morphologic patterns of the cutaneous adnexa and the morphologic variations and permutations of cutaneous adnexal lesions.;Chapters cover neoplasms of the sweat glands, sebaceous tumours of the skin, tumours of the hair follicle, Merkel cell (primary neuroendocrine) carcinoma of the skin and differential diagnosis of adnexal carcinomas of the skin. Attention is given to commonly encountered problems in categorizing these tumours diagnostically and distinguishing unequivocally benign from malignant neoplasms. The book details advances in immunostaining and describes the authors' research in diagnostic nucleic acid probe applications.