Skin Sign Reader is a 2-volume, 164-page dermatology guide built for the Indian OPD. It teaches doctors and medical students how to read skin lesions on brown skin, recognise the right pattern, and move to a referenced management plan.
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Vol 1 (Seeing): lesion language, the 3-minute skin exam, pattern recognition, site-wise reading and red flags
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Vol 2 (Doing): management toolkit, condition-wise approach and 26 worked clinical cases
- Every colour description written for Indian skin, where Western textbooks often mislead
- Covers tinea, eczema, psoriasis, acne, vitiligo, melasma, scabies, alopecia and more
- Bedside tests explained: KOH, Wood’s lamp, diascopy, Auspitz and Nikolsky sign
- Find the right page in about a minute, by body site or by appearance
- Topical steroid guidance: potency, vehicle, fingertip units, duration and step-down
- 10 red-flag signs, each marked “refer today” or “refer this week”
- 8-point lesion description template and a Hindi–English glossary for patient talk
- Full-colour clinical photos on Indian skin
- Referenced to NICE, AAD, CDC, BAD and Indian literature
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For: MBBS, BAMS & BHMS students and interns, GPs, rural medical officers and nursing staff
For educational purposes only. Not a substitute for professional medical advice or a prescribing guide.