Treatment of Skin Disease
Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies
- 7th Edition - April 28, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Mark Lebwohl, Ian H. Coulson, Dedee Murrell, Antonella Tosti
- Language: English
Using a convenient A-to-Z organization, Treatment of Skin Disease, 7th Edition, covers more than 260 of the dermatologic conditions you’re most likely to encounter. This… Read more
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Description
Description
Using a convenient A-to-Z organization, Treatment of Skin Disease, 7th Edition, covers more than 260 of the dermatologic conditions you’re most likely to encounter. This award-winning, up-to-date text puts every possible therapeutic option at your disposal—including management strategies, first- to third-line therapies, and off-label uses—for a truly complete guide to the vast array of dermatologic treatment options. Summaries of each treatment strategy are accompanied by detailed discussions of treatment choices, with clear evidence levels ranging from double-blind randomised controlled trials to anecdotal reports.
Key features
Key features
- Presents information in a concise, consistent, tabular format, with checklists of diagnostic and investigative pearls, full-color clinical images, and color-coded boxes for quick reference
- Includes new chapters on Cryoglobulinemia, Frontal fibrosing alopecia, Lipoedema, Lipoid proteinosis, mpox, and Stasis dermatitis/ID reaction
- Provides first- to third-line therapies for 261 of the most common skin disorders, including specific drug doses
- Discusses recently introduced drugs, including several new biologics for psoriasis, hidradenitis, and atopic dermatitis; other biologics in development for connective tissue disorders; new JAK inhibitors for a topic dermatitis, vitiligo, alopecia areata, and numerous other disorders; spesolimab for generalized pustular psoriasis; new lasers for various conditions, including pigmentary disorders; and more
- Includes off-label uses, new treatments like monoclonal antibodies, and new indications for existing treatments
- Offers the combined knowledge and expertise of the world’s leading authorities in dermatology, and is an ideal tool to assist with prior authorizations
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Readership
Readership
Dermatologists
Table of contents
Table of contents
1 Acanthosis nigricans
2 Acne keloidalis nuchae
3 Acne vulgaris
4 Acrodermatitis enteropathica
5 Actinic keratosis
6 Actinic prurigo
7 Actinomycosis
8 Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
9 Allergic contact dermatitis and photoallergy
10 Alopecia areata
11 Amyloidosis
12 Androgenetic alopecia
13 Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia
14 Antiphospholipid syndrome
15 Aphthous stomatitis
16 Atopic dermatitis
17 Atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma
18 Atypical nevi
19 Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
20 Bacillary angiomatosis
21 Balanoposthitis
22 Basal cell carcinoma
23 Becker nevus
24 Bed bugs
25 Behçet disease
26 Bites and stings
27 Blastomycosis
28 Blistering distal dactylitis
29 Body dysmorphic disorder (dermatologic non-disease)
30 Bowen disease and erythroplasia of Queyrat
31 Bullous pemphigoid
32 Burning mouth syndrome (glossodynia)
33 Calcinosis cutis
34 Calciphylaxis
35 Capillaritis (pigmented purpuric dermatoses, purpura pigmentosa)
36 Cat scratch disease
37 Cellulite
38 Cellulitis and erysipelas
39 Chancroid
40 Cheilitis
41 Chilblains
42 Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis chronicus
43 Chromoblastomycosis
44 Chronic actinic dermatitis
45 Coccidioidomycosis
46 Condyloma acuminata
47 COVID-19 dermatoses
48 Cryoglobulinaemia
49 Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS)/NLRP3-associated autoinflammatory disease (NLRP3-AID)
50 Cryptococcosis
51 Cutaneous candidiasis and chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
52 Cutaneous larva migrans
53 Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa
54 Darier disease
55 Decubitus (pressure) ulcers
56 Delusions of parasitosis
57 Dermatitis artefacta
58 Dermatitis herpetiformis
59 Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
60 Dermatomyositis
61 Diaper dermatitis
62 Discoid (nummular) eczema
63 Discoid lupus erythematosus
64 Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp
65 DReSS syndrome: drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms/drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DiHS)
66 Drug eruptions
67 Eosinophilic fasciitis
68 Epidermal nevi
69 Epidermodysplasia verruciformis
70 Epidermolysis bullosa
71 Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
72 Erosive pustular dermatosis
73 Erythema annulare centrifugum
74 Erythema dyschromicum perstans
75 Erythema elevatum diutinum
76 Erythema multiforme
77 Erythema nodosum
78 Erythrasma
79 Erythroderma
80 Erythrokeratodermas
81 Erythromelalgia
82 Erythropoietic protoporphyria
83 Extramammary Paget disease
84 Flushing
85 Follicular mucinosis
86 Folliculitis
87 Folliculitis decalvans
88 Fox–Fordyce disease
89 Frontal fibrosing alopecia
90 Furunculosis
91 Geographic tongue
92 Gianotti–Crosti syndrome
93 Gonorrhoea
94 Graft-versus-host disease
95 Granuloma annulare
96 Granuloma faciale
97 Granuloma inguinale
98 Granulomatous cheilitis
99 Hailey–Hailey disease
100 Hand and foot eczema (endogenous, dyshidrotic eczema, pompholyx)
101 Haemangiomas
102 Hereditary angioedema
103 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
104 Herpes genitalis
105 Herpes labialis
106 Herpes zoster
107 Hidradenitis suppurativa
108 Histoplasmosis
109 Hydroa vacciniforme
110 Hyperhidrosis
111 Hypertrichosis and hirsutism
112 Hypopigmented disorders
113 Ichthyoses
114 Impetigo
115 Inducible urticarias, aquagenic pruritus, and cholinergic pruritus
116 Irritant contact dermatitis
117 Jellyfish stings
118 Jessner lymphocytic infiltrate
119 Juvenile plantar dermatosis
120 Juvenile xanthogranuloma
121 Kaposi sarcoma
122 Kawasaki disease
123 Keloids
124 Keratoacanthoma
125 Keratosis lichenoides chronica
126 Keratosis pilaris and variants
127 Langerhans cell histiocytosis
128 Leg ulcers
129 Leiomyoma
130 Leishmaniasis
131 Lentigo maligna
132 Leprosy (including reactions)
133 Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis)
134 Lichen myxedematosus
135 Lichen nitidus
136 Lichen planopilaris
137 Lichen planus
138 Lichen sclerosus
139 Lichen simplex chronicus
140 Linear immunoglobulin A bullous dermatosis
141 Lipodermatosclerosis
142 Lipoedema
143 Lipoid proteinosis
144 Livedo reticularis
145 Livedoid vasculopathy
146 Lyme borreliosis
147 Lymphangioma circumscriptum
148 Lymphedema
149 Lymphocytoma cutis
150 Lymphogranuloma venereum
151 Lymphomatoid papulosis
152 Malignant atrophic papulosis
153 Melanoma
154 Mastocytoses
155 Melasma
156 Merkel cell carcinoma
157 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
158 Miliaria
159 Molluscum contagiosum
160 Morphoea
161 Mpox
162 Mucoceles
163 Mucous membrane pemphigoid
164 Mycetoma: eumycetoma and actinomycetoma
165 Mycobacterial (atypical) skin infections
166 Mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome
167 Myiasis
168 Myxoid cyst
169 Nail psoriasis
170 Necrobiosis lipoidica
171 Necrolytic acral erythema
172 Necrolytic migratory erythema
173 Neurofibromatosis type 1
174 Naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin syndrome)
175 Nevus sebaceus
176 Notalgia paresthetica
177 Onchocerciasis
178 Oral lichen planus
179 Orf
180 Palmoplantar keratoderma
181 Palmoplantar pustulosis
182 Panniculitis
183 Paracoccidioidomycosis
184 Parapsoriasis
185 Paronychia
186 Parvovirus infection
187 Pediculosis
188 Pemphigus
189 Perforating dermatoses
190 Perioral dermatitis
191 Peutz–Jeghers syndrome
192 Pinta and yaws
193 Pitted and ringed keratolysis (keratolysis plantare sulcatum)
194 Pityriasis lichenoides chronica
195 Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
196 Pityriasis rosea
197 Pityriasis rubra pilaris
198 Polycystic ovary syndrome
199 Polymorphic light eruption
200 Porokeratoses
201 Porphyria cutanea tarda
202 Port wine stain (‘nevus flammeus’)
203 Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation and other disorders of hyperpigmentation
204 Pregnancy dermatoses
205 Pretibial myxoedema
206 Prurigo nodularis
207 Prurigo pigmentosa
208 Pruritus
209 Pruritus ani
210 Pruritus vulvae
211 Pseudofolliculitis barbae
212 Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
213 Psoriasis
214 Psychogenic excoriation
215 Pyoderma gangrenosum
216 Pyogenic granuloma
217 Radiation dermatitis
218 Raynaud disease and phenomenon
219 Reactive arthritis
220 Relapsing polychondritis
221 Rhinophyma
222 Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other rickettsial infections
223 Rosacea
224 Sarcoidosis
225 Scabies
226 Scleredema
227 Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
228 Sebaceous gland hyperplasia
229 Seborrhoeic eczema
230 Seborrheic keratosis
231 Sporotrichosis
232 Squamous cell carcinoma
233 Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
234 Stasis dermatitis
235 Steatocystoma multiplex
236 Stoma care
237 Striae distensae cutis (stretch marks)
238 Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
239 Subcorneal pustular dermatosis
240 Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn
241 Sweet syndrome
242 Syphilis
243 Syringomata
244 Tinea capitis
245 Tinea corporis, tinea cruris, and tinea pedis
246 Tinea unguium
247 Tinea versicolor (pityriasis versicolor)
248 Toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens–Johnson syndrome
2 Acne keloidalis nuchae
3 Acne vulgaris
4 Acrodermatitis enteropathica
5 Actinic keratosis
6 Actinic prurigo
7 Actinomycosis
8 Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
9 Allergic contact dermatitis and photoallergy
10 Alopecia areata
11 Amyloidosis
12 Androgenetic alopecia
13 Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia
14 Antiphospholipid syndrome
15 Aphthous stomatitis
16 Atopic dermatitis
17 Atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma
18 Atypical nevi
19 Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
20 Bacillary angiomatosis
21 Balanoposthitis
22 Basal cell carcinoma
23 Becker nevus
24 Bed bugs
25 Behçet disease
26 Bites and stings
27 Blastomycosis
28 Blistering distal dactylitis
29 Body dysmorphic disorder (dermatologic non-disease)
30 Bowen disease and erythroplasia of Queyrat
31 Bullous pemphigoid
32 Burning mouth syndrome (glossodynia)
33 Calcinosis cutis
34 Calciphylaxis
35 Capillaritis (pigmented purpuric dermatoses, purpura pigmentosa)
36 Cat scratch disease
37 Cellulite
38 Cellulitis and erysipelas
39 Chancroid
40 Cheilitis
41 Chilblains
42 Chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis chronicus
43 Chromoblastomycosis
44 Chronic actinic dermatitis
45 Coccidioidomycosis
46 Condyloma acuminata
47 COVID-19 dermatoses
48 Cryoglobulinaemia
49 Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS)/NLRP3-associated autoinflammatory disease (NLRP3-AID)
50 Cryptococcosis
51 Cutaneous candidiasis and chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
52 Cutaneous larva migrans
53 Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa
54 Darier disease
55 Decubitus (pressure) ulcers
56 Delusions of parasitosis
57 Dermatitis artefacta
58 Dermatitis herpetiformis
59 Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
60 Dermatomyositis
61 Diaper dermatitis
62 Discoid (nummular) eczema
63 Discoid lupus erythematosus
64 Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp
65 DReSS syndrome: drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms/drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DiHS)
66 Drug eruptions
67 Eosinophilic fasciitis
68 Epidermal nevi
69 Epidermodysplasia verruciformis
70 Epidermolysis bullosa
71 Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
72 Erosive pustular dermatosis
73 Erythema annulare centrifugum
74 Erythema dyschromicum perstans
75 Erythema elevatum diutinum
76 Erythema multiforme
77 Erythema nodosum
78 Erythrasma
79 Erythroderma
80 Erythrokeratodermas
81 Erythromelalgia
82 Erythropoietic protoporphyria
83 Extramammary Paget disease
84 Flushing
85 Follicular mucinosis
86 Folliculitis
87 Folliculitis decalvans
88 Fox–Fordyce disease
89 Frontal fibrosing alopecia
90 Furunculosis
91 Geographic tongue
92 Gianotti–Crosti syndrome
93 Gonorrhoea
94 Graft-versus-host disease
95 Granuloma annulare
96 Granuloma faciale
97 Granuloma inguinale
98 Granulomatous cheilitis
99 Hailey–Hailey disease
100 Hand and foot eczema (endogenous, dyshidrotic eczema, pompholyx)
101 Haemangiomas
102 Hereditary angioedema
103 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
104 Herpes genitalis
105 Herpes labialis
106 Herpes zoster
107 Hidradenitis suppurativa
108 Histoplasmosis
109 Hydroa vacciniforme
110 Hyperhidrosis
111 Hypertrichosis and hirsutism
112 Hypopigmented disorders
113 Ichthyoses
114 Impetigo
115 Inducible urticarias, aquagenic pruritus, and cholinergic pruritus
116 Irritant contact dermatitis
117 Jellyfish stings
118 Jessner lymphocytic infiltrate
119 Juvenile plantar dermatosis
120 Juvenile xanthogranuloma
121 Kaposi sarcoma
122 Kawasaki disease
123 Keloids
124 Keratoacanthoma
125 Keratosis lichenoides chronica
126 Keratosis pilaris and variants
127 Langerhans cell histiocytosis
128 Leg ulcers
129 Leiomyoma
130 Leishmaniasis
131 Lentigo maligna
132 Leprosy (including reactions)
133 Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis)
134 Lichen myxedematosus
135 Lichen nitidus
136 Lichen planopilaris
137 Lichen planus
138 Lichen sclerosus
139 Lichen simplex chronicus
140 Linear immunoglobulin A bullous dermatosis
141 Lipodermatosclerosis
142 Lipoedema
143 Lipoid proteinosis
144 Livedo reticularis
145 Livedoid vasculopathy
146 Lyme borreliosis
147 Lymphangioma circumscriptum
148 Lymphedema
149 Lymphocytoma cutis
150 Lymphogranuloma venereum
151 Lymphomatoid papulosis
152 Malignant atrophic papulosis
153 Melanoma
154 Mastocytoses
155 Melasma
156 Merkel cell carcinoma
157 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
158 Miliaria
159 Molluscum contagiosum
160 Morphoea
161 Mpox
162 Mucoceles
163 Mucous membrane pemphigoid
164 Mycetoma: eumycetoma and actinomycetoma
165 Mycobacterial (atypical) skin infections
166 Mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome
167 Myiasis
168 Myxoid cyst
169 Nail psoriasis
170 Necrobiosis lipoidica
171 Necrolytic acral erythema
172 Necrolytic migratory erythema
173 Neurofibromatosis type 1
174 Naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin syndrome)
175 Nevus sebaceus
176 Notalgia paresthetica
177 Onchocerciasis
178 Oral lichen planus
179 Orf
180 Palmoplantar keratoderma
181 Palmoplantar pustulosis
182 Panniculitis
183 Paracoccidioidomycosis
184 Parapsoriasis
185 Paronychia
186 Parvovirus infection
187 Pediculosis
188 Pemphigus
189 Perforating dermatoses
190 Perioral dermatitis
191 Peutz–Jeghers syndrome
192 Pinta and yaws
193 Pitted and ringed keratolysis (keratolysis plantare sulcatum)
194 Pityriasis lichenoides chronica
195 Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
196 Pityriasis rosea
197 Pityriasis rubra pilaris
198 Polycystic ovary syndrome
199 Polymorphic light eruption
200 Porokeratoses
201 Porphyria cutanea tarda
202 Port wine stain (‘nevus flammeus’)
203 Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation and other disorders of hyperpigmentation
204 Pregnancy dermatoses
205 Pretibial myxoedema
206 Prurigo nodularis
207 Prurigo pigmentosa
208 Pruritus
209 Pruritus ani
210 Pruritus vulvae
211 Pseudofolliculitis barbae
212 Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
213 Psoriasis
214 Psychogenic excoriation
215 Pyoderma gangrenosum
216 Pyogenic granuloma
217 Radiation dermatitis
218 Raynaud disease and phenomenon
219 Reactive arthritis
220 Relapsing polychondritis
221 Rhinophyma
222 Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other rickettsial infections
223 Rosacea
224 Sarcoidosis
225 Scabies
226 Scleredema
227 Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
228 Sebaceous gland hyperplasia
229 Seborrhoeic eczema
230 Seborrheic keratosis
231 Sporotrichosis
232 Squamous cell carcinoma
233 Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
234 Stasis dermatitis
235 Steatocystoma multiplex
236 Stoma care
237 Striae distensae cutis (stretch marks)
238 Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
239 Subcorneal pustular dermatosis
240 Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn
241 Sweet syndrome
242 Syphilis
243 Syringomata
244 Tinea capitis
245 Tinea corporis, tinea cruris, and tinea pedis
246 Tinea unguium
247 Tinea versicolor (pityriasis versicolor)
248 Toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens–Johnson syndrome
Review quotes
Review quotes
Review of the previous edition:
"Not a day goes by that I don't refer to this book. It is super quick to look up virtually anything and read about the therapy in under five minutes. I thank Dr. Lebwohl for sharing his wisdom and insights with me on a daily basis." --©Doody’s Review Service, 2022, Patricia Wong, MD (Private Practice)Doody's Score: 4 Stars!
"Not a day goes by that I don't refer to this book. It is super quick to look up virtually anything and read about the therapy in under five minutes. I thank Dr. Lebwohl for sharing his wisdom and insights with me on a daily basis." --©Doody’s Review Service, 2022, Patricia Wong, MD (Private Practice)Doody's Score: 4 Stars!
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 7
- Latest edition
- Published: July 6, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
ML
Mark Lebwohl
Affiliations and expertise
Chairman Emeritus Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman, Department of Dermatology, Dean for Clinical Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USAIC
Ian H. Coulson
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Dermatologist, East Lancashire NHS Trust, Lancashire, UKDM
Dedee Murrell
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, St. George Hospital and the George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaAT
Antonella Tosti
Affiliations and expertise
Fredric Brandt Endowed Professor, Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA