Practical Pediatric Dermatology

This well-structured and organized text, written by a single, highly qualified author whose first edition (1979) has had a successful reception, provides the reader with a most usable teaching aid. Not meant to be an encyclopedic treatise, this readable volume provides a wealth of information about the diagnosis, treatment, and management of the broad spectrum of skin disorders seen from the newborn through the adolescent periods. Such a book should prove useful to medical students on their clinical rotations through pediatrics and family practice. Similarly, pediatric house staff, or nondermatologists who deal with pediatric patients, will also value this guide through the maze of the multiple dermatological problems that beset the young. Black-and-white photographs in general do not do justice to dermatological lesions, and those in this text, although plentiful, are not an exception to this rule. Consequently, some are of variable quality and limited usefulness. Why the marginal photomicrograph