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Preface

The purpose of this book is to focus on a selection of commonly tested entities, showing low‐power to high‐power views. Major differences among diagnoses that are sometimes confused are emphasized on “Key Differences” pages to help train the eye to rapidly notice distinctive features. As a picture is worth a thousand words, text is kept to a minimum. This book should be used as a companion to dermatopathology textbooks and as a pictorial reference/study tool, given that this approach is utilized by the experienced dermatopathologist when constructing examination questions. Major distractors are based on gestalt rather than etiology or conventional classifications; lookalikes that are the most deceptive often have no obvious relationship to the correct diagnosis. This book will also be helpful to the dermatopathology novice as it introduces a simple and effective way to approach a slide and, to that end, common diagnoses have been specifically included (i.e., actinic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma).