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Diagnosenschlüssel und Glossar psychiatrischer Krankheiten: Deutsche Ausgabe der internationalen Klassifikation der WHO: ICD (ICD = International Classification of Diseases), 8. Revision, und des internationalen Glossars

Diagnosenschlüssel und Glossar psychiatrischer Krankheiten: Deutsche Übersetzung der internationalen Klassifikation der WHO: ICD (ICD=International Classification of Diseases), 8. Revision, und des internationalen Glossars

Diagnosenschlüssel und Glossar psychiatrischer Krankheiten: Deutsche Übersetzung der internationalen Klassifikation der WHO: ICD (ICD = International Classification of Diseases), 8. Revision, und des internationalen Glossars

Diagnosenschlüssel und Glossar psychiatrischer Krankheiten: Deutsche Übersetzung der internationalen Klassifikation der WHO: ICD (ICD = International Classification of Diseases), 8. Revision, und des internationalen Glossars

Diagnosenschlüssel und Glossar psychiatrischer Krankheiten: Deutsche Ausgabe der internationalen Klassifikation der Krankheiten der WHO, ICD (=International Classification of Diseases), 9. Revision, Kapitel V

Diagnosenstruktur in der ambulanten Versorgung: Explorative Auswertungen (Gesundheitssystemforschung)

GSF - Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, MEDIS - Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung

Diagnosensysteme endogener Depressionen

Empirische Untersuchungen im Bereich def klinischen Psychiatrie bedie:len sich in den letzten 10 Jahren zunehmend operationalisierter DiagnoseD, urn eine bessere Stichprobenvergleichbarkeit zu erreichen; dies gilt insbesondere fUr den Bereich def Depressionsforschung. Klinische Studien laufen bereits Gefahr nieht mehr in angesehenen Journalen akzeptiert zu werden, wenn sie nieht auf kriteriologisch eindeutig definierte Patienlenstichprohen verweisen konnen. Eine internationale Expertengruppz hat in diesem Zusammenhang var kurzer Zeit nachdrUcklich empfohlen, bei def Publikation von Studien im Bereich de­ pressiver Erkrankungen eindeutige Ein- und Ausschlu13kriterien zur Stichpro­ benbeschreibung zu benennen (Kupfer u. Rush 1983). Die Vielzahl konkurrierender Operationalisierungen stellt den Kliniker vor die schwierige Frage, nach welchen Gesichtspunkten er welches Diagnosensy­ stem fUr seine Untersuchungen ~uswll. hlen soli. In kaum einem anderen Gebiet der Psychiatrie ist diese Wahl schwieriger, als im Bereich der operationalisier­ ten Diagnostik endogener Depressionen. Gegenwll. rtig sind mehr als ein Dut­ zend konkurrierender Diagnosensysteme endogener Depressionero bekannt, und ihre Anzahl scheint eher noch zu steigen. Angloamerikanische Journale begeg­ nen dieser Vielfalt durch die Ernpfehlung, sich der offiziellen arnerikanischen Kla~~ifikation DSM-JII zu bedienen (Oiagnostic ~nd St~tistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed. , American Psychiatric Association 1980). Diese Einengung ist sic her voreilig, da es bisher keine empirische Grundlage dafUr gibt, den DSM-I1I-Operationalisierungen eine grundSll. tzlich hOhere Validitll. t zuzugestehen als anderen operationalisierten Klassifikationssystemen oder Ein­ zeldiagnosen.

Diagnoses Without Names: Challenges for Medical Care, Research, and Policy

Doctors, patients, investigators, administrators, and policymakers who assign diagnoses assume three elements: the name describes an entity with conceptual or evidentiary boundaries, the person setting the name has a high degree of certainty, and the name has a consensus definition. This book challenges this practice and offers an alternative to assigning diagnoses: quantitating diagnostic uncertainty in personal and public medical plans.This book offers the stakeholders' views participating in a workshop, sponsored by the Barbara Volcker Center/Hospital for Special Surgery, taking place in April 2020, about uncertain diagnoses. Chapters examine the circumstances in which diagnosis names are "unassignable", either because patients do not fit within diagnostic "boxes" or because health abnormalities evolve and change over time. In addition, the book deconstructs the processes of diagnosis and explores how different stakeholders used diagnosis names for various purposes. In examining pertinent questions, the book offers a roadmap to achieving consensus definitions or including measures of uncertainty in personal care, research, and policy.Diagnoses Without Names: Challenges for Medical Care, Research, and Policy is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, and graduate students in internal medicine, rheumatology, and clinical immunology as well as investigators, administrators, policymakers.

Diagnoseschlüssel für die Pädiatrie

Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Practical Guide for the Primary Care Provider

This unique resource is designed to be a practical, user-friendly guide for pediatricians, primary care providers, and all healthcare providers who work with children with autism spectrum disorder. Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder offers state-of-the art instruction to clinicians on how to recognize, diagnose and assist children with autism spectrum disorders, from early in life to transition to adulthood. This book will also delve into how to support pediatric patients by working with families, and discuss how to best interact with and support these families. The book opens with a comprehensive introduction of ASD and obstacles to diagnosis and common myths. Section Two is devoted to the early recognition of atypical development and reviews the steps in diagnosing autism, including the evaluation, the diagnostic visit, the developmental exam, and the discussion of findings with parents. Section Three covers treatment and interventions for the autism spectrum and includes a discussion on alternative therapies and how to direct parents toward evidence-based or plausible treatments. Section Four and Five addresses special topics that are relevant to the PCP’s or pediatrician’s long-term relationship with families, including chapters on anxiety, parents, challenging behaviors and common scenarios that occur across childhood for those who have ASD. Later chapters delve more deeply into providing informed, sensitive care for patients with intersecting identities, and discusses how gender identity and cultural perspective and attitudes can impact the pediatric patient with ASD. Engaging, and written in a conversational style, Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder will be an ideal resource for the pediatrician, primary care provider, and all healthcare providers working with children with ASD, providing concrete, step-by-step methods that readers can incorporate into their own practice.

Diagnosing and Treating Common Problems in Paediatrics: The Essential Evidence-Based Study Guide

This remarkable new guide is the first hybrid text of its kind that adopts the traditional method of medical education and fuses it with an evidence-based approach. It covers, in great detail, all of the common conditions seen in primary and secondary paediatrics. Skilfully designed for easy revision and reference, each chapter is devoted to a symptom, commencing with the objectives and essential relevant background material followed by history and examination. In the management section specific questions are posed and evidence based responses are offered, ensuring both patients and their parents are satisfied. Uniquely, in the majority of cases, evidence from randomized controlled trials is given. To facilitate comprehension, revision and examination preparation, chapter includes a series of multiple choice questions and meticulous answers. It also includes an invaluable clinical slide and X-ray collection outlining key radiological features of many of the clinical conditions described to further aid understanding, recognition and diagnosis. Diagnosing and Treating Common Problems in Paediatrics is a highly comprehensive primer of how to learn and evaluate knowledge and then translate that knowledge into practice. It provides paediatric consultants and students with the confidence, professionalism and unique communication skill required to work effectively with both children and parents, ensuring successful treatment and outcomes.

Diagnosing and Treating Common Problems in Paediatrics: The Essential Evidence-Based Study Guide

This remarkable new guide is the first hybrid text of its kind that adopts the traditional method of medical education and fuses it with an evidence-based approach. It covers, in great detail, all of the common conditions seen in primary and secondary paediatrics. Skilfully designed for easy revision and reference, each chapter is devoted to a symptom, commencing with the objectives and essential relevant background material followed by history and examination. In the management section specific questions are posed and evidence based responses are offered, ensuring both patients and their parents are satisfied. Uniquely, in the majority of cases, evidence from randomized controlled trials is given. To facilitate comprehension, revision and examination preparation, chapter includes a series of multiple choice questions and meticulous answers. It also includes an invaluable clinical slide and X-ray collection outlining key radiological features of many of the clinical conditions described to further aid understanding, recognition and diagnosis. Diagnosing and Treating Common Problems in Paediatrics is a highly comprehensive primer of how to learn and evaluate knowledge and then translate that knowledge into practice. It provides paediatric consultants and students with the confidence, professionalism and unique communication skill required to work effectively with both children and parents, ensuring successful treatment and outcomes.

Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomprehensibilis: Case Studies in Revising Medical Writing

Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomphensibilis is a book of case studies on revising medical writing into plain English. It is a companion to Plain English for Doctors and Other Medical Scientists (Oxford University Press, 2017). It gives more practice to help the reader master skills in plain English medical writing. The 12 case studies are based on excerpts from articles published in leading medical journals. The excerpts cover a wide range of medical topics. Each case study looks at one excerpt, between 56 and 308 words long, that shows many classic symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis - those overused writing habits that make medical writing hard to read. The case study asks questions, and gives short exercises, to guide the reader through the process of diagnosing the symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis. The reader writes their prescription and revises to treat the symptoms. After each case study, the authors give their answers, prescription and revision. This book is intended for doctors and other medical scientists who write for medical journals, and anyone who aspires to do so. It is intended for writers at all levels, from veteran authors to students. It includes writers in related fields such as public health, pharmacology, nursing and life sciences. It is designed for self-study, seminar or classroom use.

Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomprehensibilis: Case Studies in Revising Medical Writing

Diagnosing and Treating Medicus Incomphensibilis is a book of case studies on revising medical writing into plain English. It is a companion to Plain English for Doctors and Other Medical Scientists (Oxford University Press, 2017). It gives more practice to help the reader master skills in plain English medical writing. The 12 case studies are based on excerpts from articles published in leading medical journals. The excerpts cover a wide range of medical topics. Each case study looks at one excerpt, between 56 and 308 words long, that shows many classic symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis - those overused writing habits that make medical writing hard to read. The case study asks questions, and gives short exercises, to guide the reader through the process of diagnosing the symptoms of medicus incomprehensibilis. The reader writes their prescription and revises to treat the symptoms. After each case study, the authors give their answers, prescription and revision. This book is intended for doctors and other medical scientists who write for medical journals, and anyone who aspires to do so. It is intended for writers at all levels, from veteran authors to students. It includes writers in related fields such as public health, pharmacology, nursing and life sciences. It is designed for self-study, seminar or classroom use.

Diagnosing Dental and Orofacial Pain: A Clinical Manual

Diagnosing Dental and Orofacial Pain: A Clinical Manual approaches a complex topic in a uniquely practical way. This text offers valuable advice on ways to observe and communicate effectively with patients in pain, how to analyze a patients’ pain descriptions, and how to provide a proper diagnosis of orofacial pain problems that can arise from a myriad of sources—anywhere from teeth, joint and muscle pain, and paranasal sinuses to cluster headaches, neuralgias, neuropathic pain and viral infections. Helps the student and practitioner understand the diagnostic process by addressing the exact questions that need to be asked and then analyzing verbal and non-verbal responses to these Edited by experts with decades of clinical and teaching experience, and with contributions from international specialists Companion website provides additional learning materials including videos, case studies and further practical tips for examination and diagnosis Includes numerous color photographs and illustrations throughout to enhance text clarity

Diagnosing Dental and Orofacial Pain: A Clinical Manual

Diagnosing Dental and Orofacial Pain: A Clinical Manual approaches a complex topic in a uniquely practical way. This text offers valuable advice on ways to observe and communicate effectively with patients in pain, how to analyze a patients’ pain descriptions, and how to provide a proper diagnosis of orofacial pain problems that can arise from a myriad of sources—anywhere from teeth, joint and muscle pain, and paranasal sinuses to cluster headaches, neuralgias, neuropathic pain and viral infections. Helps the student and practitioner understand the diagnostic process by addressing the exact questions that need to be asked and then analyzing verbal and non-verbal responses to these Edited by experts with decades of clinical and teaching experience, and with contributions from international specialists Companion website provides additional learning materials including videos, case studies and further practical tips for examination and diagnosis Includes numerous color photographs and illustrations throughout to enhance text clarity

Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility

Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and the Middle East. Hassan sets the scene by offering examples from Victorian novels that reveal the rise of the woman doctor as a fictional trope. Similarly, medical advice manuals by Victorian doctors aimed at families traveling overseas emphasized how women should maintain and manage healthy bodies in colonial locales. For Lucie Duff Gordon, Isabel Burton, Anna Leonowens, among others, doctoring natives secured them access to their private lives and cultural traditions. Medical texts and travel guides produced by practicing women doctors like Mary Scharlieb illustrate the relationship between medical progress and colonialism. They also helped support women's medical education in Britain and the colonies of India and the Middle East. Colonial subjects themselves produced texts in response to colonial and medical reform, and Hassan shows that a number of "New" Indian women, including Krupabai Satthianadhan, participated actively in the public sphere through their involvement in health reform. In her epilogue, Hassan considers the continuing tradition of women's autobiographical narrative inspired by travel and medical knowledge, showing that in the twentieth- and twenty-first century memoirs of South Asian and Middle Eastern women doctors, the problem of the "Woman Question" as shaped by medical discourses endures.

Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility

Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women travelers in colonial India and the Middle East. Hassan sets the scene by offering examples from Victorian novels that reveal the rise of the woman doctor as a fictional trope. Similarly, medical advice manuals by Victorian doctors aimed at families traveling overseas emphasized how women should maintain and manage healthy bodies in colonial locales. For Lucie Duff Gordon, Isabel Burton, Anna Leonowens, among others, doctoring natives secured them access to their private lives and cultural traditions. Medical texts and travel guides produced by practicing women doctors like Mary Scharlieb illustrate the relationship between medical progress and colonialism. They also helped support women's medical education in Britain and the colonies of India and the Middle East. Colonial subjects themselves produced texts in response to colonial and medical reform, and Hassan shows that a number of "New" Indian women, including Krupabai Satthianadhan, participated actively in the public sphere through their involvement in health reform. In her epilogue, Hassan considers the continuing tradition of women's autobiographical narrative inspired by travel and medical knowledge, showing that in the twentieth- and twenty-first century memoirs of South Asian and Middle Eastern women doctors, the problem of the "Woman Question" as shaped by medical discourses endures.

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In Diagnosing Giants, Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak examines the historical record in detail, reconstructing Lincoln's last hours moment by moment to calculate the odds. That leads him to more questions: What if he had lived? What sort of neurological function would he have had? What kind of a Constitutional crisis would have ensued? Dr. Mackowiak, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, offers a gripping and authoritative account of thirteen patients who took center stage in world history. The result is a new understanding of how the past unfolded, as well as a sweeping survey of the history of medicine. What was the ailment that drove Caligula mad? Why did Stonewall Jackson die after having an arm amputated, when so many other Civil War soldiers survived such operations? As with Lincoln, the author explores the full contest of his subjects' lives and the impact of each case on the course of history, from Tutankhamen, Buddha, and John Paul Jones to Darwin, Lenin, and Eleanor Roosevelt. When an author illuminates the past with state-of-the-art scientific knowledge, readers pay attention. Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic, about the medical malpractice that killed President James A. Garfield, was a New York Times bestseller. And Dr. Mackowiak's previous book, Post-Mortem: Solving History's Greatest Medical Mysteries, won the attention of periodicals as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and New England Journal of Medicine, which pleaded for a sequel. With Diagnosing Giants, he has written one with impeccable expertise and panache.

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In Diagnosing Giants, Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak examines the historical record in detail, reconstructing Lincoln's last hours moment by moment to calculate the odds. That leads him to more questions: What if he had lived? What sort of neurological function would he have had? What kind of a Constitutional crisis would have ensued? Dr. Mackowiak, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, offers a gripping and authoritative account of thirteen patients who took center stage in world history. The result is a new understanding of how the past unfolded, as well as a sweeping survey of the history of medicine. What was the ailment that drove Caligula mad? Why did Stonewall Jackson die after having an arm amputated, when so many other Civil War soldiers survived such operations? As with Lincoln, the author explores the full contest of his subjects' lives and the impact of each case on the course of history, from Tutankhamen, Buddha, and John Paul Jones to Darwin, Lenin, and Eleanor Roosevelt. When an author illuminates the past with state-of-the-art scientific knowledge, readers pay attention. Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic, about the medical malpractice that killed President James A. Garfield, was a New York Times bestseller. And Dr. Mackowiak's previous book, Post-Mortem: Solving History's Greatest Medical Mysteries, won the attention of periodicals as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and New England Journal of Medicine, which pleaded for a sequel. With Diagnosing Giants, he has written one with impeccable expertise and panache.

Diagnosing history: Medicine in television period drama

This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark, The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.

Diagnosing history: Medicine in television period drama

This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark, The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.

Diagnosing Non-small Cell Carcinoma in Small Biopsy and Cytology

This volume provides a practical yet comprehensive guide to manage the shift in the diagnosis of lung cancer from large resections to small samples, including cytology specimens and core biopsies. Specifically, it outlines various available minimally-invasive modalities and presents algorithms to optimize and maximize sample collection and processing beginning at the time of tissue acquisition during the procedure. Secondly, the book provides an overview of the various existing and emerging lung cancer therapies and why a specific diagnosis is crucial. Key elements for the classification of small biopsies and cytology proposed by the ATS, IASLC, and ERS are highlighted. A section dedicated to immunohistochemistry offers a logical, step-by-step guide to sub-classify lung cancers and to differentiate them from metastases. The text also provides a review of the various molecular tests (and alternatives in cases of scant tissue) required for lung adenocarcinomas. Finally, potential pitfalls to avoid during acquisition, processing, and classification are discussed. With contributions from a team of multidisciplinary authors who are regularly involved in the care of lung cancer patients , Diagnosing Non-small Cell Carcinoma in Small Biopsy and Cytology is an invaluable reference guide for pathologists, pathologists-in-training, and allied professionals, including oncologists, pulmonologists, surgeons, and radiologists. ​

Diagnosing the Less Common Skin Tumors: Clinical Appearance and Dermoscopy Correlation

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 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

Diagnosing the Less Common Skin Tumors: Clinical Appearance and Dermoscopy Correlation

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 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