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Edited by Libby Edwards, 253 pp, $99, ISBN 0-7817-5307-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.

Arch Dermatol. 2005;141:1328.

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At first blush, this is an impressively and elegantly printed, moderately priced book with wonderful color pictures of many genital dermatoses. The initial predominance of the female rather than the male genitalia in these illustrations is forgiven as one turns each page to see yet another well-defined and explicit photograph.

It is only when one reads the text more closely that one discovers a number of unnecessary errors and inconsistencies, particularly related to therapy, although none of those that I noticed will lead to serious mismanagement. For example, tacrolimus is not a monoclonal antitumor necrosis factor antibody. Also, fluconazole as a second-line therapy for tinea cruris may not be as effective as itraconazole or terbinafine.

In one chapter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation of 2.4 million U of benzathine penicillin G intramuscularly, given as a single injection for the treatment of early syphilis, is reported correctly, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Anne Laumann, MBChB, MRCP(UK), Reviewer

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