Mucocutaneous manifestations of HIV/AIDS : early diagnostic clues /

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Imprint:Singapore : Springer ; [Beijing] China : People's Medical Publishing House, [2020]
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12608560
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Other authors / contributors:Li, Yu-Ye, editor.
Wang, Kun-Hua, editor.
He, Li, 1985- editor.
ISBN:9789811554674
9811554676
9789811554674
9811554668
9789811554667
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: He, Li Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV/AIDS : Early Diagnostic Clues Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2020 9789811554667
Standard no.:10.1007/978-981-15-5467-4.