Dermoscopy: The Essentials: Expert Consult - Online and Print

Dermoscopy: The Essentials presents the practical guidance you need to master this highly effective, cheaper, and less invasive alternative to biopsy. Drs. Peter Soyer, Giuseppe Argenziano, Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof, and Iris Zalaudek explain all aspects of performing dermoscopy and interpreting results. With approximately 50% new clinical and dermoscopic images, valuable pearls and checklists, and access to the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, you’ll have everything you need to diagnose earlier and more accurately.

• Avoid diagnostic pitfalls through pearls that explain how to accurately use dermoscopy and highlight common mistakes.
• Master all aspects of performing dermoscopy and interpreting the results with easy-to-use "traffic light" systems and checklists for quick and effective learning.

• Access the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, along with a downloadable image gallery.
• Diagnose more accurately using the expanded section on testing tools for extra guidance on difficult cases.
• Gain a better visual understanding with approximately 50% new clinical and dermoscopic images that depict the appearance of benign and malignant lesions and feature arrows and labels to highlight important manifestations.

Professor Soyer is an academic dermatologist with over 30 years’ experience in the field. He was appointed Chair in Dermatology by The University of Queensland in 2007 and as Director of the Princess Alexandra Hospital Dermatology Department in 2008.


Professor Soyer is internationally recognised for his expertise in the areas of clinical dermatology, dermatooncology, dermatopathology and dermatologic imaging. He is a pioneer and world leader in the field of dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions, a non-invasive diagnostic method. He has lead the development of the morphologic classification system currently used worldwide.


Professor Soyer has an extensive publication record with over 600 publications to date, with more than 650 citations per year (in the last 5 years) and an h-index of 70 (Google Scholar).


Professor Soyer has received numerous awards and in total, through his involvement as an investigator, he has achieved over $24M in research funding for UQ.

Giuseppe Argenziano is the Head of the Dermatology Unit at the University of Campania, Naples, Italy; Co-founder and past president of the International Dermoscopy Society; President of the Italian Society of Dermatology; and Editor-in-Chief of Dermatology Practical and Conceptual Journal.

Dr Argenziano's main research area is dermato-oncology - having authored over 800 scientific articles and landmark primary publications and books concerning dermoscopy, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer - with an h-index of 76 (Scopus, 2024).

Over the past 25 years he has supervised over 500 foreign and Italian residents in Dermatology, established scientific collaborations with 1500+ colleagues from more than 50 Nations, and organized more than 500 national and international didactic meetings, courses and conferences. Dr Argenziano is a frequently invited speaker and/or has been elected chairman in more than 500 national and international conferences in the field of dermatology.

Iris Zalaudek is Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the Hospitals of the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina (Trieste, Italy).

She is an expert in Dermatologic Oncology with a worldwide network of collaborations and teaching activities, with a profound knowledge in conducting clinical trials and fundraising. Her research comprises 580+ publications with an h-index of 72 (Scopus, 2023) and over 600 participations as speaker at congresses and workshops. Her research on melanocytic tumors led to a new classification of nevi and her working group was the first to describe the dermoscopic patterns of different forms of epithelial skin cancers.

Dr Zalaudek has received awards for TOP Researcher at the University of Graz, Austria and the University of Trieste, Italy. She was the First Female President of the International Dermoscopy Society and was nominated among the TOP 50 Women in Dermatology (2020).