Caterina Longo – författare

Cutaneous Melanoma: A Pocket Guide for Diagnosis and Management serves as an easy-to-consult, short, and schematic reference providing guidelines for diagnosing and managing melanoma in the context of various clinical scenarios. In the daily routine of a busy clinician, there is a need for schematic reference tools that allow quick consultation for immediate decisions. Melanoma is a deadly disease that should be promptly managed following precise and evidence-based guidelines.

The guide contains many schematics and figures, vastly outnumbering the pages dedicated to text. This guide follows the sequence of a real clinical setting, going from the first screening visit to the final stages of terminal patients.

Provides a quick-access resource for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma patients at all stages Includes succinct guidelines, schematics, and figures for busy clinicians Concludes with a section addressing special clinical situations, including melanoma in pregnancy, pediatric melanoma, familial melanoma and MPM, atypical Spitz tumor, occult primary melanoma, and the histopathologic gray zone

This issue of Dermatologic Clinics, guest edited by Jane M. Grant-Kels, Giovanni Pellacani, and Caterina Longo, is devoted to Confocal Microscopy. Articles in this timely issue include: Basics of Confocal Microscopy and the Complexity of Diagnosing Skin Tumors: New Imaging Tools in Clinical Practice, Diagnostic Workflows, Cost-estimate and New Trends; Opening a Window Into Living Tissue: Histopathologic Features of Confocal Microscopic Findings in Skin Tumors; Addressing the Issue of Discriminating Nevi from Early Melanomas: Dues and Pitfalls; Melanoma Types and Melanoma Progression: The Different Faces; Lentigo Maligna, Macules of the Face and Lesions on Sun-damaged Skin: Confocal makes the Difference; Glowing in the dark: use of confocal microscopy in dark pigmented lesions; Enlightening the Pink: Use of Confocal Microscopy in Pink Lesions; Shining into the White: The Spectrum of Epithelial Tumors from Actinic Keratosis to SCC; Application of Wide-probe and Handy-probe for Skin Cancer Diagnosis: Pros and Cons; Confocal Microscopy for Special Sites and Special Uses; Confocal Algorithms for Inflammatory Skin Diseases and Hair Diseases; In Vivo and Ex Vivo Confocal Microscopy for Dermatologic and Mohs' Surgeons; Telediagnosis with Confocal Microscopy: A Reality or a Dream?; "Well-aging": Early Detection of Skin Aging Signs; The Role of Confocal Microscopy in Clinical Trials for Treatment Monitoring; and Fluorescence (multiwave) Confocal Microscopy.

Caterina Longo, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Dermatology and Venereology, at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMO); Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale – IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Centro Oncologico ad Alta Tecnologia Diagnostica, Modena, Italy; President of AIDNID; Executive Board Member of the International Dermoscopy SocietyMany texts deal with how to diagnose the straightforward melanomas of the skin, but there are many less common skin tumors that a clinician needs to be aware of because these are still likely to be encountered at some point in a clinical setting and many of them have serious implications. This highly illustrated text from an internationally acclaimed researcher provides a reliable guide to how to proceed with diagnosis of these more challenging entities.Contents: Tumors of the Epidermis: Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome * Fibroepithelioma of Pinkus * Basosquamous carcinoma * Verrucous carcinoma * Sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma * Lentigines, Nevi, and Melanoma: Atypical Spitz nevus (tumor) * Halo Spitz nevus * Desmoplastic nevus * Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma * Animal-type melanoma * Nevoid melanoma * Balloon cell melanoma * Desmoplastic melanoma * Special site melanoma (mucosal, acral) * Tumors of Cutaneous Appendages: Trichoadenoma * Trichoepithelioma and Brooke-Spiegler syndrome * Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma * Trichoblastoma * Tumors of the follicular infundibulum * Tricholemmoma and tricholemmal carcinoma and Cowden syndrome * Pilomatrixoma * Fibrofolliculoma/trichodiscoma and Birt—Hogg-Dubè syndrome * Sebaceous tumors *Syringocystadenoma papilliferum * Hidradenoma * Cylindroma and familial cylindromatosis and Brooke-Spiegler syndrome * Spiradenoma * Mammary and extramammary Paget’s disease * Syringoma * Eccrine poroma and eccrine porocarcinoma * Mesenchymal Tumors: Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans * Atypical fibroxanthoma * Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma) * Other Uncommon Tumors: Merkel cell carcinoma * Kaposi’s sarcoma * Angiosarcoma * Retiform hemangioendotheliomaWith contributions from: Alessandro Annetta * Giuseppe Argenziano * Elisa Benati * Caterina Bombonato * Stefania Borsari * Eugenia Veronica Di Brizzi * , Gerardo Ferrara * Giorgio La Viola * Mara Lombardi * Elvira Moscarella * Riccardo Pampena * Giovanni Paolino * Simonetta Piana

This atlas provides a clear, concise overview of the most challenging circumstances faced by clinicians and pathologists when dealing with melanocytic neoplasms.