With enthusiasm we welcome this text revised in keeping with pinkus general philosophy and utilizing his concern for precise terms complex classifications and careful speculations in biology some other popular texts in dermatohistopathology oversimplify to a fault or ignore the practical problem of using a biopsy to improve medical practice. In the newest edition of pinkus guide to dermatohistopathology the authors have attempted not only to describe the myriad facts of dermatopathology but also to teach a method the student can use to analyze cutaneous histologic sections in normal and diseased skin the authors accomplish this in part by relating the histologic pattern of disease with its currently known biological basis thus giving the student a framework for understanding the nature of histologic findings in the skin. This fifth edition of pinkus offers newly defined dermatologic entities as well as updates for all chapters this edition also reflects advances in the field and adds three new chapters on immunopathology extra cellular deposits and icthyosiform dermatoses. Pinkus guide to dermatohistopathology amir h mehregan ken hashimoto hermann pinkus david a mehregan appleton lange 1995 social science 816 pages. Pinkus guide to dermatohistopathology by amir h mehregan 1995 appleton lange edition in english 6th ed amir h mehregan et al pinkus guide to dermatohistopathology