Diagnosing the Less Common Skin Tumors

Caterina Longo, MD, PhD
Associate 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 Society

Many 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 hemangioendothelioma

With 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

"Gives readers an appreciation of the possible dermatoscopic presentations that can be seen for atypical melanomas and rarer skin carcinomas...", Patricia Wong, MD

Caterina Longo is  a dermatologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers by noninvasive modalities such as dermoscopy and confocal microscopy. She works as scientific consultant at the skin cancer unit of ASMN-IRCCS Reggio Emilia, Italy. She won the IDS prize in 2015 as best young researcher.

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