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Foreword
The specialty of dermatology has advanced over the past 35 years from one of clinical descriptions
of cutaneous disorders to encompass the fields of clinical immunology and cellular and molecular
biology with striking improvements in our ability to diagnose and treat many skin diseases which
previously were only vaguely defined or untreatable.
However, even today, the cornerstone of clinical dermatology still requires a careful and
perceptive physical exam with a detailed knowledge of the range of cutaneous clinical findings and
their associated dermatologic and systemic disorders.
Paul Schneiderman and Marc Grossman, whom I have known professionally for a total of 63
years, are two of the finest teacher/clinician/academicians in our specialty and have assembled a
comprehensive presentation of dermatologic entities in differential diagnostic format accompanied
by 4000 clinical photographs which serve as “visual orientations” for the diagnostic lists.
This opus is a life’s work in the field of clinical dermatologic teaching. The text and accompanying
atlas can be perused for ideas when the confounding patient arrives at your institution or office, and
thus, this tome will be useful for the academic dermatologist/clinician or the small town general
practitioner. The two volumes light a pathway of approach to clinical dermatology and are the result
of the combined 55 years of clinical instruction to which these two teachers of our specialty have
devoted their professional lives.
I am thrilled that their contributions to our specialty can extend beyond the confines of New
York and New Haven, and trust that all those first learning dermatology or those already well-versed
in the specialty will derive as much pleasure and knowledge from this text as all the residents and
colleagues who have been educated by these two clinician/scholars.
Richard L. Edelson, MD
Chairman, Department of Dermatology
Yale-New Haven Medical Center
New Haven, Connecticut