Atlas of Hair and Nails

by Hordinsky, Sawaya & Scher

• ISBN13: 9780443075230
• ISBN10: 0443075239
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-11
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone

Summary

Here is today's most comprehensive, user-friendly resource on hair and nail disorders. 415 full-color illustrations pictorially cover a full range of diseases and disorders, from fungal infections and pigment disorders...to hair shaft abnormalities and hirsutism...to tumors of the hair and nails.

Table of Contents

Section one BASIC PRINCIPLES
Hair and Nail Physiology	3	(6)
Kurt Stenn
Philip Fleckman
Hair and Nail Histology	9	(18)
Histology of Normal Hair	9	(9)
David A. Whiting
Histology of the Normal Nail Unit	18	(9)
Melody Stone
Angela R. Styles
Clay J. Cockerell
Section two HAIR AND NAIL DISORDERS
Developmental and Hereditary Disorders	27	(20)
Howard P. Baden
Lynn A. Baden
Dermatological Diseases That Affect the Nail	47	(12)
Antonella Tosti
Bianca Maria Piraccini
Nail Signs of Systemic Disease	59	(12)
Mark Holzberg
Fungal Infections	71	(20)
Piet de Doncker
Gerald E. Pierard
Common Hair Loss Disorders	91	(14)
Jerry Shapiro
Harvey Lui
Hair Shaft Abnormalities	105	(16)
Ulrike Blume-Peytavi
Nathalie Mandt
Hirsutism and Hypertrichosis	121	(8)
Mary Gail Mercurio
Cicatricial Alopecias	129	(12)
Leonard C. Sperling
Tumors of Hair and Nails	141	(16)
Tumors of the Nail Apparatus	141	(9)
Philippe Abimelec
Tumors of the Pilosebaceous Unit	150	(7)
Elke-Ingrid Grussendorf-Conen
Pigment Disorders of the Hair and Nails	157	(16)
Desmond J. Tobin
Eva M. J. Peters
Karin U. Schallreuter
Section three TREATMENTS
Cosmetic and Ethnic Issues	173	(16)
Hair Cosmetic Issues	173	(8)
Christopher L. Gummer
Nail Cosmetic Issues	181	(8)
Zoe D. Draelos
Surgical Treatments	189	(12)
Eckart Haneke
Section four SPECIAL ISSUES
Adverse Effects and Drug Interactions of Medications Used to Treat Hair and Nail Disorders	201	(12)
H. Irving Katz
Aging	213	(14)
Philip R. Cohen
Richard K. Scher
Forensic and Medicolegal Issues	227	(6)
Diana Garside
Bruce A. Goldberger
Psychiatric Issues	233	(6)
Elizabeth Reeve
Molecular Basis of Inherited Hair and Nail Diseases	239	(6)
Peter B. Cserhalmi-Friedman
Wasim Ahmad
Angela M. Christiano
Index	245