Skin Necrosis
Skin necrosis is a clinical manifestation of tissue death, most commonly due to alteration of cutaneous blood flow. Tissue death may occur from blockage, destruction or physiologic constriction of vessels supplying the skin, in either large vessels (perip
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Life-Threatening Dermatoses and Emergencies in Dermatology
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Life-Threatening Dermatoses and Emergencies in Dermatology
Jean Revuz • Jean-Claude Roujeau Francisco A. Kerdel • Laurence Valeyrie-Allanore Editors
Life-Threatening Dermatoses and Emergencies in Dermatology
Editors Jean Revuz Service de Dermatologie Centre hospitalier universitaire Henri Mondor 51 av du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 94010 Créteil, France [email protected] [email protected]
Jean-Claude Roujeau Université Paris XII Service de Dermatologie Centre hospitalier universitaire Henri Mondor 51 av du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 94010 Créteil, France [email protected]
Francisco A. Kerdel Cedars Medical Center Department of Dermatology 1400 NW 12 Avenue 6th South Miami, FL 33136, USA [email protected]
Laurence Valeyrie-Allanore Service de Dermatologie Centre hospitalier universitaire Henri Mondor 51 av du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 94010 Créteil, France [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-79338-0
e-ISBN 978-3-540-79339-7
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Preface
For many reasons, dermatology has acquired a special status among medical specialties. As the most accessible organ, skin was from the origin of humanity frequently exposed to therapeutic interventions and manipulations by spouses, wizards, physicians, artists and scientists. With the tremendous development of science in the 19th century, dermatology benefited early from the most advanced technologies. Photography, bacteriology, and pathology proved especially efficient for studying skin diseases. The “clinical-pathological” method arose as the gold standard for describing a myriad of diseases. As a consequence, dermatology textbooks became two to three times thicker than internal me
