The clinical approach of the observer (gynecologists, postgraduates, biologists, dermatologists, health professionals), as well as of the novice colposcopist and the expert, is the direct observation of a lesion. But the same colposcopic finding may be the expression of different etiologies. For this reason, a diagnosis cannot be articulated according to a school treatment or an examination by topics. This atlas is the first in international literature that provides a deductive approach and follows the identical diagnostic path of the observer: from lesion to diagnosis. This book offers an essential but explanatory text with 540 illustrations, including instructive diagrams and findings in colposcopy, vulvoscopy and anoscopy. The rich iconography represents a precious quick or in-depth consultation tool in a specialized field where the vision of the uterine cervix cannot be detached from the evaluation of the vulva and anal region. A full immersion session completes this work, showing the most interesting and unusual cases that may occur in daily clinical practice.

This practical atlas presents colposcopy in detail. It offers an innovative but extremely ex planatory approach, to the benefit of space given to numerous didactic diagrams made with computer graphics and about 500 colpophotographs whose quality has received enthusiastic acclaim from the most authoritative international experts of Colposcopy. The author includes ex tremely clear images of squamous metaplasia?s maturation phases, dysplastic lesions, carcinoma of the cervix and rare colposcopic cases.

La microscopia de contraste de fase es un nuevo instrumento en manos de los médicos. Sin ninguna ayuda de laboratorio, tinción, fijación, etc., esta técnica permite observar las células flotantes y el microorganismo, y establecer un diagnóstico en cinco minutos. Este atlas ha sido elaborado por un experto en microscopia de contraste de fase de prestigio mundial y ofrecerá una nueva perspectiva a las nuevas generaciones de médicos que creen en la medicina basada en pruebas científicas.

Direct microscopy provides, in real time and without laboratory procedures, reliable and comprehensive information about hormonal status, cervicovaginal infections, physiological cell changes and dysplastic cells. In our current practice direct microscopy or phase contrast microscopy is usually performed as an extension of the routine gynaecological check-up, in order to obtain more reliable information during patient examination. Ideally, direct microscopy should be used in every patient undergoing gynaecological examination; this technically supported work-up may easily give very satisfactory results with a skillful application of such equipment. For these reasons, wet mount microscopy was confirmed to be extremely useful for many health professionals, in scientific research and in daily office practice, in order to obtain an accurate diagnosis and thus a specific treatment