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Foreword<br />

The specialty of dermatology has advanced over the past 35 years from one of clinical descriptions<br />

of cutaneous disorders to encompass the fields of clinical immunology and cellular and molecular<br />

biology with striking improvements in our ability to diagnose and treat many skin diseases which<br />

previously were only vaguely defined or untreatable.<br />

However, even today, the cornerstone of clinical dermatology still requires a careful and<br />

perceptive physical exam with a detailed knowledge of the range of cutaneous clinical findings and<br />

their associated dermatologic and systemic disorders.<br />

Paul Schneiderman and Marc Grossman, whom I have known professionally for a total of 63<br />

years, are two of the finest teacher/clinician/academicians in our specialty and have assembled a<br />

comprehensive presentation of dermatologic entities in differential diagnostic format accompanied<br />

by 4000 clinical photographs which serve as “visual orientations” for the diagnostic lists.<br />

This opus is a life’s work in the field of clinical dermatologic teaching. The text and accompanying<br />

atlas can be perused for ideas when the confounding patient arrives at your institution or office, and<br />

thus, this tome will be useful for the academic dermatologist/clinician or the small town general<br />

practitioner. The two volumes light a pathway of approach to clinical dermatology and are the result<br />

of the combined 55 years of clinical instruction to which these two teachers of our specialty have<br />

devoted their professional lives.<br />

I am thrilled that their contributions to our specialty can extend beyond the confines of New<br />

York and New Haven, and trust that all those first learning dermatology or those already well-versed<br />

in the specialty will derive as much pleasure and knowledge from this text as all the residents and<br />

colleagues who have been educated by these two clinician/scholars.<br />

viii<br />

Richard L. Edelson, MD<br />

Chairman, Department of Dermatology<br />

Yale-New Haven Medical Center<br />

New Haven, Connecticut

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