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This is the first book on eczema written primarily for the practising dermatologist and gives therapeutic intervention in a tabular form for easy reference. Wherever possible therapeutic intervention are listed as first, second line and third line options. The book also covers contact dermatitis in detail with a special chapter on regional differential diagnosis of contact dermatitis. The contributors are largely those who have worked in this field extensively. The book has more than 140 images with a special focus on novel drugs for atopic dermatitis.

Contents: 1. Introduction/Kabir Sardana and Ananta Khurana. 2. Irritant Eczema/Kabir Sardana. 3. Contact Eczema: A. Introduction and Regional Causes of Contact Dermatitis/Kabir Sardana. B. Allergic Contact Dermatitis/Taru Garg, Seema Rani and Soumya Agarwal. 4. Non-eczematous Contact Dermatitis/Seema Rani and Abir Saraswat. 5. Photosensitive Eczema/Seema Rani, Shivani Bansal and Kabir Sardana. A. Photoallergic and Phototoxic Dermatitis. B. Chronic Actinic Dermatitis (CAD). 6. Airborne Contact Dermatitis/Seema Rani, Sanjay Ghosh and Saurav Kundu. 7. Parthenium Dermatitis/Ananta Khurana. 8. Diaper Dermatitis/Deepshikha Khanna and Ananta Khurana. 9. Atopic Dermatitis/Kabir Sardana, Ananta Khurana, Khushbu Mahajan and Aniket Bhole. 10. Seborrheic Eczema/Ananta Khurana, Wai-Kwong Cheong and Chia-Chun Ang. 11. Infective Dermatitis/Aastha Gupta. 12. Asteatotic Eczema/Kabir Sardana. 13. Discoid Eczema/Kabir Sardana and Shivani Bansal. 14. Pityriasis Alba/Kabir Sardana and Shivani Bansal. 15. Hand Eczema/Konchok Dorjay, Kabir Sardana, Ananta Khurana and Pooja Arora Mrig. 16. Hyperkeratotic Eczema of the Palms/Kabir Sardana and Ananta Khurana. 17. Acute and Recurrent Vesicular Hand Eczema (Syn: Pompholyx)/Kabir Sardana. 18. Juvenile Plantar Dermatosis/Aastha Gupta. 19. Venous Eczema/Kabir Sardana and Shivani Bansal. 20. Lichen Simplex Chronicus/Kabir Sardana. 21. Exfoliative Erythroderma/Ananta Khurana. 22. Prurigo Nodularis (Chronic Prurigo)/Kabir Sardana, Asit Mittal and Shivani Bansal. 23. Miscellanous Eczematous Conditions/Ananta Khurana. Index.