Dermoscopy: The Essentials presents the practical guidance you need to master this highly effective, more economical, and less invasive alternative to biopsy. Drs. Giuseppe Argenziano, H. Peter Soyer, Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, Iris Zalaudek, and Gabriella Brancaccio explain all aspects of performing dermoscopy and interpreting results. With ample new clinical and dermoscopic images, valuable pearls and checklists, and online access to the fully searchable and downloadable text, you'll have everything you need to diagnose earlier and more accurately.• Discusses how to accurately use dermoscopy and highlight common mistakes in a highly practical, systematic, and practical manner. • Explains how to interpret what you are seeing using an easy-to-use "traffic light" systems to identify low, moderate, and high-risk lesions. Detailed, yet concise, explanations are provided for each lesion. • Shows clinical and dermoscopic images side-by-side. Highlights important dermoscopic manifestations in benign and malignant lesions using clear arrows and labels. • Features an entire section solely focused to screening for melanoma. • Features a section where similar-looking benign and malignant lesions are presented next to each other and guides the user to correctly identify each. • Offers clear guidance on when a lesion should be excised. • Comprehensively covers the full spectrum of pigmented skin lesions.• Ample new cases. • Additional common clinical scenarios have been added. • New dermoscopic features are described.