The field of dermatology has very much changed during the last decades. An ever-increasing knowledge about the pathogenesis of diseases of the skin has made it possible to not only better classify but also to make dermatoses better explainable and understandable. The present book exemplifies this with a very common disease, the dyshidrotic eczema of the hands. Most current textbooks still describe "dyshidrosis" as a disease of the eccrine sweat glands, as was first postulated in 1873 by T. Fox. In 1962, R. D. G. P. Simons challenged this concept and since then, it has not been possible to...

Durch die Zunahme berufsbedingter Hauterkrankungen (BK5101 "Haut") werden auch haufiger dermatologische Gutachten angefordert. Aus juristischer und dermatologischer Sicht werden sowohl die versicherungsrechtlichen als auch die medizinischen Grundlagen erlautert, die zur Begutachtung von Hautkrankheiten notwendig sind. Eine unverzichtbare Praxishilfe fur alle, die in das "Hautarztverfahren" eingebunden sind."