Consultations in Dermatology

Dr Walter B. Shelley is a former Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

This is a handbook on dermatologic differential diagnosis and clinical management, focusing on sixty-two challenging and vexing clinical cases encountered in over fifty years of patient practice in dermatology. Each case is presented as a well-written vignette, told in a case-study tone. The authors first present the background of each case in a concise, thorough, manner including all the clinical details. The authors then reveal the process involved in the diagnosis and therapy involved. There is a section on relevant questions that the doctor should be pondering.

Preface; Introduction; 1. The case of black sweat; 2. A case of hives that wouldn't go away; 3. The painful bath; 4. A shower of hives; 5. A premenstrual rash; 6. Uncombable hair; 7. The man who couldn't sweat; 8. Scratch blisters; 9. Skin deep photography; 10. The bug that never was; 11. Blue spots; 12. White spots; 13. Same place, next time rash; 14. The brown spots that wouldn't go away; 15. The case of the painful fingertips; 16. A strange case of sunburn; 17. A multiple personality dermatitis; 18. Accidental hives; 19. Rotten fish odor; 20. Hormone blisters; 21. Flower shop itch; 22. 'Stress and a penny' hives; 23. The case of unilateral wrinkles; 24. Fiery red legs; 25. Painful feet; 26. Hot flashes and cold cream; 27. The blisters and the skin test; 28. A chilling pain; 29. Rough skin and sore throats; 30. The premenstrual purple chin; 31. Nine year hives; 32. Golf course dermatitis; 33. The secret message; 34. Herpes Gladiatorum; 35. Sunshine allergy; 36. L'Homme Rouge; 37. Rings of rash; 38. The breasts that never stopped growing; 39. The minister's hives; 40. Hardened skin; 41. Battery blisters; 42. Swollen lips; 43. The worm from outer space; 44. A new light on psoriasis; 45. Black and blue spots; 46. The emergency room itch; 47. The sleeper; 48. A crazy rash; 49. Bald spots; 50. The dog died; 51. The abacus tumor; 52. No spit; 53. The smell of burnt toast; 54. The twenty-three year itch; 55. The mysterious treatment; 56. The creeping acne cyst; 57. Our first case; 58. A strange case of acne; 59. The case of the glass eye; 60. The hand eczema caper; 61. The sore that would never heal; 62. Black blisters.