Thomas de Aquino Paulo Filho
Rio Grande Do Norte University
Brazil
Biography
Thomas de Aquino Paulo Filho completed his graduate course in Medicine from Rio Grande do Norte University in Brazil in 1982 and Post-graduate course at Sao Paulo University in 1985. He lived for ten years in Rio de Janeiro Brazil where he worked with public health with Leprosy and Sexual Transmitted Diseases. In 1994, he began to work at Department of Clinical Medicine and Dermatology at Onofre Lopes Hospital in Natal, Brazil and at Rio Grande do Norte University as Assistant Professor of Dermatology. He has published an Atlas of Cutaneous Cytology in 2007 for Brazilian Society of Dermatology and article on Derm101 website on Dermatology Practical and Conceptual Journal in October, 2014. He has worked with Cutaneous Cytopathology since 1986, collecting slides from tumoral and inflammatory-granulomatous cutaneous diseases. Recently, he has showed the importance of differential diagnosis between pigmented basal cell carcinoma and melanoma using Tzanck test.
Abstract
Abstract : Cytopathology of the skin: A very practical and useful test in dermatology