Overview
- Guides physicians through the diagnosis and treatment of psoriasis
- Evidence-based book discusses new treatment options, including topicals, phototherapy, oral systemic therapy, and injectable biologics
- Practical and easy-to-use format focuses on mild, moderate, and severe psoriasis
- Discusses unique methods of use, such as sequential and combination therapy
- Written for practicing dermatologists, residents, and primary care physicians
- Includes high-quality photographs and tables for quick and easy reference
Part of the book series: Updates in Clinical Dermatology (UCD)
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About this book
Given the multitude of new treatment options for psoriasis, including topicals, phototherapy, oral systemic therapy, and injectable biologics, the treatment of the disease has truly become an art. Evidence-Based Psoriasis passes on this art to practicing physicians in a very practical and easy-to-use format, focusing on mild, moderate, and severe psoriasis. Offering evidence-based information in a concise text, this book discusses new treatment options, including topicals, phototherapy, oral systemic therapy, and injectable biolgoics. This text also describes unique methods of use, such as sequential and combination therapy, and is written for practicing dermatologists, residents, and primary care physicians. Evidence-Based Psoriasis also includes high quality color photographs and tables for quick and easy reference.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
SERIES EDITORS:
Dr. Howard Maibach is an expert in contact and occupational dermatitis and sees patient at the Environmental Dermatosis Clinic, which is part of the Dermatology Clinic. His specialty is dermatotoxicology, or skin exposure toxicity; allergies and skin disorders; and dermatopharmacology or the study of medications for skin disorders. Dr. Maibach has been on the editorial board of more than 30 scientific journals and is a member of 19 professional societies including the American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco Dermatological Society and the Internal Commission on Occupation Health. He is a professor in the Department of Dermatology at UCSF.
Dr. CheeLeok Goh is a top Consultant Dermatologist, Professor and Adjunct Professor at the National Skin Centre Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Duke- NUS Graduate Medical Centre, Singapore. Dr Goh’s expertise includes Dermatology, Contact and Occupational Dermatology, Aesthetic Dermatology, Cutaneous Lasers, Pigmentation Disorders, Dermatitis, Aqua Vulgaris, Urticaria, Photo-aging skin changes, Drug eruptions, Skin infections, Hair fall, Psoriasis, Immunobulous disorders, Hemangioma and portwine stains, Contact and Occupational Dermatitis etc.
Dr. John Berth-Jones is a Consultant Dermatologist at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Specialist Registrar in Dermatology Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Norwich, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evidence-Based Psoriasis
Book Subtitle: Diagnosis and Treatment
Editors: Tina Bhutani, Wilson Liao, Mio Nakamura
Series Title: Updates in Clinical Dermatology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90107-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90106-0Published: 18 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07935-2Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90107-7Published: 30 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-8884
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 148
Number of Illustrations: 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dermatology