Cutaneous Cytology and Tzanck Smear Test

• Main Author: Durdu, Murat (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Dermatology.; Pathology.

Sampling and staining of specimens for cutaneous cytology is broadly known to be one of the simplest, fastest, most reliable and inexpensive methods for the diagnosis of skin diseases, based as it is on the investigation of peculiar features in individual cells. This book illustrates the best practi...

Table of Contents:

• History of cytology
• Specimen sampling and staining
• Cytological diagnostic process
• Cytological definitions
• Diagnostic approach to acantholytic diseases
• Diagnostic approach to spongiotic dermatitis
• Diagnostic approach to pustular diseases
• Diagnostic approach to granulomatous diseases
• Diagnostic approach to tumoral diseases
• Diagnostic approach to benign tumoral lesions
• Diagnostic approach to malignant tumoral lesions.