RT Book, Section
A1 Gaddis, Kevin
A1 Miller, Daniel
A2 Soutor, Carol
A2 Hordinsky, Maria K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1190937940
T1 Urgent Cutaneous Disorders
T2 Clinical Dermatology: Diagnosis and Management of Common Disorders, 2e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264257379
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190937940
RD 2024/04/19
AB Within  this  chapter,  we  will  explore  a  group  of  diseases  in  which  the  diagnosis  and  management  (or  triage),  are  a  key  task  for  clinicians  in  a  variety  of  scenarios.  The  patients  affected  by  these  disorders  span  from  infants  to  elders,  and  from  healthy  to  immunosuppressed.  Prompt  recognition  and  therapeutic  intervention  are  crucial  for  these  disorders,  in  order  to  prevent  or  mitigate  the  significant  potential  morbidity  (and  in  some  cases,  mortality).  These  conditions  share  mucocutaneous  blistering  or  desquamation,  and  may  demonstrate,  especially  early  in  course,  overlapping  clinical  features  with  non-emergent  exanthems;  thus,  particular  attention  will  be  paid  to  the  historical  and  examination  findings  which  best  help  distinguish  these  disorders  from  each  other  and  from  non-urgent  diagnoses.