Occupational Skin Disease

Presenting the latest edition of this authoritative and detailed text that provides everything a reader needs to know about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of occupational skin disease in a user-friendly format. Features the latest findings and offers expert advice on making an accurate diagnosis. Over 40 world-renowned clinician-contributors suggest practical management solutions for a host of occupational skin diseases encountered in practice. This edition includes extensive information on the new and easy method of patch testing, and an expanded section on job descriptions with their irritants and allergens. Also includes current information on contact and environmental dermatology.

Contact and Occupational Dermatology is the new, revised edition of this practical guide to the evaluation and care of patients with contact or occupational dermatitis. This new edition includes brand new information and the text is enhanced by 172 full colour images. This book is written by James Marks, Professor of Dermatology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre in the United States, ensuring authoritative content throughout.

A highly practical approach to occupational dermatoses combined with the skill and experience of specialists in clinical and experimental dermatology. Great care is taken throughout to provide the information urgently needed for daily patient management, with concise tables, algorithms, and figures on how to optimise the diagnostic procedure for high-quality patient care and expert opinion. This handbook provides the relevant job descriptions, job-specific diagnostic algorithms and a detailed description of allergens and irritants such that readers can master even difficult and unusual problems in occupational dermatology.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of skin issues that can arise while at work. It is meant to guide dermatologists, allergists, and industrial physicians in the successful diagnostic and management of the patients suffering from occupational skin dermatoses. It provides a look at the current modes of treatment available to practicing physicians while also offering updates on the most recent changes and advances for easy integration into practice. With an depth look at some of the more common diseases, like various urticaria and eczema as well as examining specific work places prone to exposure, this book will provide a quick and easy-to-use reference. Chapters contain patient photos and offer a multidisciplinary approach with special chapters on medical legal implications as well as exploring the minimum standards on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment as viewed worldwide. Handbook of Occupational Dermatoses is a must-have resource for dermatologists, allergists, and primary care physicians that deal with these skin issues everyday.

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