Eduardo Zappi • Eduardo A. Zappi

2013

The author’s ideas with respect to dermatopathology have already been presented in the Spanish edition of this book and have been translated into English for this edition. Chapter 1 of this book covers basic concepts of cutaneous embryology, anatomy, and biochemistry. A short introduction to topics of immunology is more conveniently placed at the beginning of Chapter 6 , in which the lesions of in fl ammatory nature are discussed. Chapter 2 deals with the taxonomic criteria that were applied for developing the classi fi cation of cutaneous lesions used in this text.