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Second edition. By A. Bernard Ackerman, Ana Maria N. Mendonca, and Ying Guo. 199 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1992. $139.50. ISBN 0-8121-1383-7.

The scope of this book is formidable; it covers not only a wide range of inflammatory dermatoses but also benign and malignant cutaneous neoplasms, for a total of 90 different diseases. As compared with other textbooks of dermatopathology, it is unique in its didactic approach. Rather than the conventional thematic narrative grouped into long chapters and interrupted by an occasional figure, this book consists of vignettes of 45 pairs of diseases and combines a clinical picture with a miniseries of photomicrographs of histologic slides at low, intermediate, and high magnification for each pair of diseases. These exceptionally high quality images . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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