Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV/AIDS Early Diagnostic Clues

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Synopsis

This book introduces a number of HIV/AIDS cases with mucocutaneous lesions. HIV/AIDS can manifest a variety of skin lesions due to immunological disorder, opportunistic infections and tumors always occur primarily with skin lesions. The cases included in this book reflect the diseases spectrum and evolution of mucocutaneous lesions at different stages before and after AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) as well.

This book consists of nine chapters, including fungal, viral, bacterial, parasitic, neoplastic, inflammatory diseases, syphilis and ART-induced diseases, etc. More than 300 cases and 600 photos of representative and important clinical significances are selected, showing the different clinical characteristics of the same disease under different immune status. Clinical photos are combined with clear and concise medical history along with the discussion on it, by which the readers can understand why skin lesions can be used as the early diagnostic clues to HIV/AIDS infection. Moreover, every chapter summarizes the similarity and characteristics of each type of skin diseases, which outlines and explains why they are AIDS-related mucocutaneous lesions.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2020
Author:
Li He, Yu-Ye Li, Kun-Hua Wang
ISBN:
9789811554674
Related ISBNs:
9789811554667
Publisher:
Springer Singapore, Singapore
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-03-25
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. and People's Medical Publishing House, PR of China 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Medicine, Nonfiction