This book provides a complete overview on the latest available technologies in dermatology, while discussing future trends of this ever-growing field. This handy guide provides clinicians and researchers with a clear understanding of the advantages and challenges of laser and imaging technologies in skin medicine today. It also includes a section on imaging techniques for the evaluation of skin tumors, with chapters devoted to dermoscopy, in vivo and ex vivo reflectance confocal microscopy, high frequency ultrasound, optical coherence tomography, and a closing part on latest approaches to wound management.

Completed by over 200 clinical images, Current Technology in Practical Dermatology: Non-Invasive Imaging, Lasers and Ulcer Management  is both a valuable tool for the inpatient dermatologist and for physicians, residents, and medical students in the field.

Foreword

Preface
Section I - Imaging techniques for the evaluation of skin diseases
1. Dermoscopy: fundamentals and technology advances
2. Dermoscopy for benign melanocytic skin tumors
3. Dermoscopy for Melanoma
4. Dermoscopy for non-melanocytic benign skin tumors
5. Demoscopy for non-melanocytic malignant skin tumors
6. Dermoscopy for inflammatory diseases
7. Dermoscopy for infectious diseases
8. Digital dermoscopy analysis
9. Optical super-high magnification dermoscopy
10. Fluorescence videodermoscopy
11.Total body photography and sequential digital dermoscopy for melanoma diagnosis
12. History and Fundamentals of Reflectance Confocal Microscopy
13.In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for benign melanocytic skin tumors
14. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for melanoma
15. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy  for non melanocytic benign skin tumors
16. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for non melanocytic malignant skin tumours
17. In vivo Reflectance Confocale Microscopy for Inflammatory Diseases
18. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for infectious diseases
19. In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy for mucous membranes
20. Ex vivo confocal microscopy
21. Ultrasound
22. Optical coherence tomography
23. High-Definition optical coherence tomography
24. 3D imaging
25. Raman spectroscopy
26. Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging for skin acquisition and analysis
27. Electrical impedance in dermatology
Section II - Lasers and light sources technologies in dermatology
28. Laser Light and Light-tissue Interaction
29. Laser and light sources: safety and organization issues
30. Intense polichromatic lights and light emitting diodes:what's new
31. Vascular lasers: tips and protocols
32. Broadband intense pulsed lights for vascular malformations
33. Pigment specific lasers for benign skin lesions and tattoos:  long pulsed, nanosecond and picosecond lasers
34. Skin resurfacing: ablative and non-ablative lasers
35. Photorejuvenation: concepts, practice, perspectives
36. Laser hair removal: updates
37. Biophotonic therapy induced photobiomodulation
38. Photodynamic Therapy
Section III - Technological advances in wound management
39. Temporary dressing
40. Extracellular matrices
41. Skin bank bioproducts: the basics
42. Clinical applications of skin bank bioproducts
43. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
44. Tissue Engineered skin substitutes
45. Biologics in Wound Management
46. Stem Cell in Wound Healing
Section IV - New complementary tools for dermatologic diagnosis
47. Microbiopsy in dermatology
48. Noninvasive genetic testing: adhesive patch-based skin biopsy and buccal swab
49. Liquid biospsies