Constantin E. Orfanos - Pigmented Ethnic Skin and Imported Dermatoses: A Text-Atlas

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The clinical presentation of skin diseases varies greatly depending on age, body area, the structure of the skin region involved and the impact of environmental influences such as temperature, humidity and exposure to UV light. In skin of colour, particularly in heavily pigmented ethnic populations, diagnosis of skin disease requires particular knowledge and experience of the attending dermatologist. Also the probability for any physician to be challenged by seen dermatoses in patients with pigmented skin or in travellers with white skin imported from hot climate zones has markedly increased during the last decade due to vivid tourism, increased migration and ongoing globalisation. Thus, it appeared to us timely to elaborate and improve the knowledge on dermatoses in pigmented skin among physicians not only in areas where these disorders originally occur but also in geographic regions they only rarely occurred in the past and remained often late recognised.

A most important educational instrument in dermatology is clinical photography. The contributing authors and the editors of this volume focussed their attention to carefully select representative clinical pictures of high educational value, based on their own long-term clinical and diagnostic experiences with patients of diverse ethnic background. This Text-Atlas of Diseases in Pigmented Ethnic Skin and Imported Dermatoses is divided into several comprehensive chapters covering a large spectrum of dermatological disorders in pigmented skin, presenting a brief introduction on their epidemiology and pathogenesis with emphasis on the peculiarities of their clinical pictures and possible management.

Our sincere hope is that this book will help the readers, both in developing and in developed countries, to get familiar with the diagnosis of such entities and facilitate their management. We would like this book to join all those who offer their medical services to patients with pigmented skin in solving any of their doubts and provide proper care. Finally, we truly hope that the Text-Atlas will become useful not only to our colleagues dermatologists but also to physicians of other disciplines who are interested in skin diseases.

We are deeply grateful to all those who have contributed in this endeavour.