Best dermatology books according to redditors

First you have to learn how to spell dermatology.

I kid, I kid.

https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Dermatology-Color-Diagnosis-Therapy/dp/0323261833/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491402287&sr=1-1&keywords=clinical+dermatology

The info I'm providing is from a dermatology textbook I studied. Cosmetic Dermatology Principles and Practices (http://www.amazon.ca/Cosmetic-Dermatology-Principles-Practice-Edition/dp/0071490620).

I've screenshotted a graph that outlines some of the differences and pastebin'd the relevant resources section and text here: http://pastebin.com/E40BgJBq and http://pastebin.com/A6T2u7gU (it's too large to screenshot properly)

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We may not know all of the differences, but it's not pseudoscience. This study also provides a good starting point: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1600-0781.2003.00027.x/full

The plural of anecdote is not data.

They look like boxcar scars. I would read about the different procedures used to treat atrophic acne scarring, starting with this summary of Niti Khunger's book (which I recommend) Step by Step Treatment of Acne Scars.

Medium depth chemical peels and ablative lasers can soften boxcar scars, but won't remove them completely. Other techniques include various kinds of punch-excision:

(From the summary link above)

Punch excision techniques (Level B)

These techniques are utilized for depressed scars such as ice pick and boxcar scars. According to the diameter of the scar, a biopsy punch of appropriate size is used to excise the scar.

• Punch excision and closure: If the scar is > 3.5 mm in size, it is excised and sutured after undermining, in a direction parallel to the relaxed skin tension lines.
  
  
• Punch incision and elevation: If the depressed scar has a normal surface texture, it is incised up to the subcutaneous tissue and elevated to the level of the surrounding skin.
  
  
• Punch excision and grafting: Depressed pitted ice pick scars up to 4 mm in diameter, are excised and replaced with an autologous, full-thickness punch graft. The donor site is commonly the postauricular region or the buttock. Care should be taken to avoid cobblestoning, which is a common complication.

I'm on a mobile, but I recommend (oopsie, wrong author) Muller and Kirks' Small Animal Dermatology as a start.

http://www.amazon.com/Muller-Kirks-Small-Animal-Dermatology/dp/1416000283

I've heard Bolognia is good.

AP: (um, we have anatomic and clinical pathology divided in the USA)

Can't recommend Molavi enough. I think the best thing to read after Molavi is to read it a second time.

The real question is, one you've read that, what to read next. I agree with u/frogamazog, a big book like Rosai would be helpful. I always liked Fletcher's histopathology of tumors but I can't tell you it's superior to the alternatives.

But what I was after, and didn't always find, was a book that WASN'T comprehensive, that was readable by someone in their first 2 years. I found the biopsy interpretation series to be helpful as a first and second year as they were pretty readable, and...I was quite bad at pathology. Show me a low power image when I was a first year, I didn't know what I was supposed to see. The 20x and 40x photos sorta forced me to look in the right places.

My short list, which should be debated; I mean, maybe I just suck:

-lung: biopsy interpretation of the lung. for non neoplastic, new katzenstein

-liver: biopsy interpretation, mike torbenson's version is great

-derm, elston and ferringer. for non neoplastic, this one

-gi I'll go biopsy interpretation again before the tome that is odze

-thyroid: I actually don't know what's best here and would appreciate advice as any diagnostic skills I had here are rapidly being lost

-head n neck: biopsy interpretation aerodigestive was fun.

-heme: whew. I don't know a good starter book. Thoughts? Once WHO 2016 2017 update drops I'd be tempted to tell people to just start there. Jaffe's book is pretty readable but it gets dense.

-neuro: prayson's is pretty readable. There's an old smears book that's good for smears.

eyes: if you're gonna write an intro book on a niche field, here's the template

-BST: khurana's essentials in bone and soft tissue pathology. not too heavy.

Start out with this book if you're a med student:
http://www.amazon.com/Lookingbill-Principles-Dermatology-DERMATOLOGY-LOOKINGBILL/dp/1416031855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342114145&sr=8-1
It's an amazing resource to try to learn the basic language of dermatology. You need to start by mastering how to describe lesions. This is the text I have all medical students who rotate through our department read. It gets you the confidence to start describing lesions properly, and then systematically breaks down skin disorders by category (papules, pustules, patches, etc) so that you can learn to develop a strong ddx just based on what category the lesion is.

All specialties have their basic language and build from there. You just need to discover this basic language. Crawl before you can walk.

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology - Expert Consult - Online and Print, 11e (James, Andrew's Disease of the Skin)

https://www.amazon.com/Lookingbill-Principles-Dermatology-DERMATOLOGY-LOOKINGBILL/dp/1455728756

https://www.amazon.com/Dermatology-Atlas-Color-Diane-Jackson-Richards/dp/3642544452

there are resources but just not many

http://www.amazon.com/Wilkinson-Stone-Atlas-Vulvar-Disease/dp/1451132182

No one would touch it.

Ugh... Inflammatory dermatopathology. Time to open up Billings' textbook. If it's not in there, I send it out.

Can I order a history stain/chart biopsy?