Christos C. Zouboulis Livres

This book, written by experts from across the world, provides comprehensive coverage of acne and rosacea, focusing in particular on pathogenesis and treatment but also considering clinical aspects, prognostic factors, and impacts on quality of life. Both standard knowledge and important, clinically relevant insights that have emerged over the past decade are presented with the goal of assisting the reader in understanding these diseases and improving treatment outcome. It is explained how high-level research has recently given rise to a variety of new concepts in etiology and treatment, and emerging trends are also discussed. The book is in a reader-friendly format that highlights core messages with a very practical and clinical focus. Pathogenesis and Treatment of Acne and Rosacea will be an indispensable reference for all physicians who care for patients with acne or rosacea and for scientists working in the field.

Trends in acne research and treatment The proceedings of the Symposium on Acne which took place during the 20th World Congress of Dermatology in July 2002 in Paris review the current and future aspects of research, clinical entities and treatment of acne. In the foreword by Prof. John S. Strauss (Iowa City) the most important data are summarized. The papers presented are the results of a cooperation of international experts introducing innovative data on epidemiology, comedogenesis and inflammation, acne in infancy, acne genetics, topical and systemic treatment, bacterial resistance, hormonal therapy, and less common methods of acne therapy. This publication equally addresses clinicians and scientists interested in the current and future trends of the treatment of acne as well as the auspicious development acne research will experience.

It includes skin diseases due to or associated with endocrine disorders, skin disorders which can be treated with hormones or with compounds with hormone-like activity, and skin disorders which occur as adverse events of hormone treatment or of treatment with compounds exhibiting a hormone-like effect.

The papers in this book explore the sebaceous glands, acne and related disorders. Areas covered include modelling the infundibulum in acne, mechanisms of androgen induction of sebocyte differentiation, bacterial resistance in acne, drug treatment in acne and acneiform dermatoses.