Skin Diseases in the Elderly: A Color Handbook

Manson Publishing, November 2011, Pages: 137

In this new colour handbook the authors deal systematically with those skin conditions that are particular to or more common in the elderly covering testing, diagnosis and treatment options. Given ageing populations the need for such a book is urgent.

More and more elderly patients will seek care for a variety of skin conditions, ranging from eczema and psoriasis to benign lesions and skin cancers. For environmental and physiological reasons, all such conditions become more prevalent in the elderly and the effects of treatment more problematic.

Following an initial chapter on how skin changes with age, the authors discuss in turn inflammatory, neoplastic, infectious and metabolic/nutritional diseases of the skin, plus skin signs of systemic disease in old age.

Skin Diseases of the Elderly is written in a concise structured style and illustrated by a wealth of top quality colour photos. it is intended to help dermatologists in practice and training, geriatricians, primary care physicians, specialist nurses and senior medical students.

Key features:

- Systematic coverage of testing, diagnosis and treatment
- Chapter on how skin changes with age
- Chapter on skin signs of systemic disease
- Concise text plus top quality colour photos

Preface
Abbreviations
Suggested Reading

PART 1: Skin changes with aging
- Age-related atrophy
- Solar atrophy
- Bruising
- Xerosis
- Varicosities

PART 2: Inflammatory skin disease

Autoimmune
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Cicatricial pemphigoid (mucous membrane pemphigoid)
- Dermatomyositis
- Acute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (systemic lupus erythematosus)
- Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
- Discoid lupus erythematosus
- Scleroderma
- Pemphigus
- Sjögren syndrome

Neutrophilic dermatoses
- Sweet syndrome
- Pyoderma gangrenosum

Allergic and hypersensitivty processes
- Drug eruptions
- Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome/Toxic epidermal necrolysis

Photorelated conditions
- Polymorphous light eruption
- Phototoxic/Photoallergic reactions
- Chronic actinic dermatitis (actinic reticuloid)
- Porphyria cutanea tarda

Other inflammatory conditions
- Psoriasis
- Pityriasis rubra pilaris
- Seborrheic dermatitis
- Intertrigo
- Asteatotic eczema
- Lichen planus
- Contact dermatitis
- Nummular dermatitis
- Urticaria (hives)
- Rosacea
- Lichen sclerosus
- Neurodermatitis/Prurigo nodularis/ Lichen simplex chronicus
- Chondrodermatitis nodularis chronica helicis
- Grover disease
- Erythema annulare centrifugum
- Erythema nodosum

PART 3: Neoplasms of the skin

Malignant
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Actinic keratosis
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Keratoacanthoma
- Malignant melanoma
- Sebaceous carcinoma
- Angiosarcoma
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Cutaneous B-cell lymphoma
- Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
- Metastatic tumors and paraneoplastic syndromes

Benign
- Seborrheic keratosis
- Sebaceous hyperplasia
- Angioma (cherry angioma)
- Angiokeratoma
- Milium
- Skin tags(acrochordons)
- Epidermoid cyst
- Favre–Racouchot disease
- Lipoma
- Syringoma
- Dermatofibroma
- Lentigo
- Nevus
- Fibrous papule
- Verrucas (warts

PART 4: Infestations and infections
Parasitic
- Scabies
- Lice

Viral
- Herpes simplex
- Varicella zoster

Bacterial
- Bacterial folliculitis
- Bacterial cellulitis/Erysipelas

Fungal
- Tinea
- Candidiasis

PART 5: Metabolic and nutritional disease
- Scurvy
- Cheilitis
- Pruritus
- Zinc deficiency
- Pellagra

PART 6: Skin signs of systemic disease
- Necrobiosis lipoidica (diabeticorum)
- Acanthosis nigricans
- Granuloma annulare
- Amyloidosis
- Stasis dermatitis
- Leg ulcers
- Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (hypersensitivity vasculitis)
- Xanthomas
- Erythema gyratum repens
- Acrokeratosis neoplastica (Bazex syndrome)

Index

Colby Craig Evans, MD, Evans Dematology Partners, Austin, Texas Whitney A. High, MD, University of Colorado at Denver, Dermatology Clinic, Aurora, CO

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