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Dermatopathology in Europe
Dreams and Realities
Helmut Kerl, MD
From the Department of Dermatology, University of Graz-Medical School, Graz, Austria.
Arch Dermatol. 1999;135:21-24.
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Dermatopathology is the most important aid to clinical diagnosis in dermatology. Its value in establishing a specific diagnosis of all kinds of diseases, inflammatory and neoplastic chief among them, is unquestioned.1-5 Today the field of dermatopathology has expanded beyond traditional morphologic evaluation by gross and light microscopy to include electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and molecular biology.
Dermatopathology as a specialty has been developed almost exclusively by dermatologists. We, their successors, look back with pride on its history at the same time that we realize our great obligation to continue a worthy tradition. For more than 100 years all dermatopathology textbooks were written by dermatologists; in recent years, several pathologists with extensive experience in dermatopathology, but with exposure also to clinical dermatology, have contributed major texts. Even the chapters devoted to diseases of the skin in major textbooks of general pathology for the most part are written by dermatologists . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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