The standard textbook of Dermatology and Allergy in new edition! The 4th edition of the "Braun-Falco Textbook", an international standard text of dermatology, allergy and sexually transmitted disorders has been thoroughly rewritten and reedited and offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the entire field for clinicians in hospital and private practice. The editors assembled an expert team of authors with outstanding international reputation who present a concise overview of the complete spectrum of dermatology and its groundbreaking progress with particular emphasis on aspects of practical care within the specialty. The treatment recommendations are based on current international guidelines and standards of care, and pay special attention to latest therapeutic progress as well as recent pathophysiological concepts. A special emphasis has been put on a unique array of high quality figures and a clear, easily understandable structure of the respective chapters. Besides the printed version, the new edition is available as a digital version. New aspects of the 4th edition that reflect the tremendous and rapid progress of dermatology include an up to date clinical classification of dermatoses, current guidelines and therapeutic concepts in inflammatory and neoplastic diseases, and dermatological aspects of the new Covid-19 infection. "Braun-Falco`s Dermatology" is a must for specialists and trainees in dermatology, and of great value for all physicians who encounter skin diseases in general.

Lasers in Dermatology presents an excellent and complete survey of the numerous applications of lasers in dermatological therapy and research, the fundamentals of laser-skin interaction, and the various laser sources and tools in use. A comprehensive outlook to new instrumentation, such as pulsed lasers of ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, completes this up-to-date overview, which is indispensable not only to practitioners and clinical researchers in dermatology but also to engineers and laser physicists in biomedicine.

Die malignen Hauttumoren und die Prakanzerosen der Haut werden umfassend auch unter Einschluss der seltenen Tumoren dargestellt. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die histologische Diagnosesicherung. Daneben beschreibt das Buch weitere diagnostische Techniken einschliesslich der sonographischen Verfahren und der Positronenemissionstomographie in ihrem derzeitigen Stellenwert. Die prognostische Wertigkeit und die Stadieneinteilung aller Tumoren wird behandelt. Der Hauptschwerpunkt liegt auf der Therapie der Hauttumoren. Die operative Therapie ist dabei genauso ausfuhrlich berucksichtigt wie die medikamentose Therapie einschliesslich der Chemotherapeutika und Zytokine sowie die supportiven Therapien. Ein Standardwerk, das dem Leser aktuelles Wissen und genaue Anleitung fur sein praktisches Vorgehen bietet."