Guest Editorial

This Issue: Skin Emergencies

  • Pediatric Annals
  • October 2010 - Volume 39 · Issue 10: 599-604
  • DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20100922-08
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Abstract

Every day, a child with a dermatologic condition will enter the pediatrician’s office, or the emergency room. The challenge we’re faced with is that pediatricians have variable training in dermatology, and there is a tremendous shortage of pediatric dermatologists worldwide. Confounding this problem is the fact that in dermatology, there are very few diagnostic laboratory tests. Diagnosis, treatment, and management are based heavily on clinical assessment and clinical judgment. Parents often ask, “How do you know just by looking?” and some critics have likened dermatology to “witchcraft.”

doi: 10.3928/00904481-20100922-08

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