Mohammad Ali El-Darouti - Challenging Cases in Dermatology Volume 2: Advanced Diagnoses and Management Tactics

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Once again, similar to the book published in 2014, in this second volume of Challenging Cases in Dermatology , you will be challenged with a new collection of unusual cases laid out in 72 chapters. The journey of each chapter starts with the clinical data that leads to a list of thoroughly discussed differential diagnoses. Each case is then meticulously studied with succinct clinical, radiological, and lab investigations, as well as histological information that will boost your diagnostic skills. The chapter titles are self descriptive. The diagnosis is only revealed at the end of the exploring pathway, after which the management is elucidated. None of the cases are straightforward, classic, or ordinary. Some are so rare that they have been reported only once. Others are combined with features that have never been reported in the literature. Indeed, you may hardly encounter such cases throughout your professional career. Nevertheless, this book focuses on the strategic way of thinking, analyzing data, and utilizing all resources to arrive at a diagnosis. It is all about developing advanced diagnostic and management tactics .

Mark Twain once said, If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, that will probably be the worst thing you do all day .

Tackling such cases makes your ability to handle daily dermatologic cases an easy task.

We hope you will have a thrilling, fruitful, and extraordinary journey through each chapter.

First and foremost, praise and thanks to the Almighty, for His showers of blessings that have given us the ability and knowledge to have this work completed successfully. Indeed, writing a book is harder than we thought, even if it is the second volume of an already published book. Nevertheless, it is more rewarding than we could have ever imagined.

To our colleague doctors and residents, Ahmed Mourad, Dina El-Antably, Hagar El-Sayed, and Mona Korany, we cannot express enough thanks for your contribution. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and sincerely valued.

A special gratitude to our editors in Springer; your insightful feedback and support throughout this project was invaluable.

Mohammad Ali El-Darouti & Faiza Mohamed Al-Ali