Overview
Introduces various skin lesions as the early diagnostic clues to HIV/AIDS infection
Presents more than 300 cases with clinical photos
Summarizes the similarity and characteristics of each type of skin diseases related to HIV/AIDS infection
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kun-hua Wang is the Professor and Dean of First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University.
Li He is the Professor at Department of Dermatology and Venereology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV/AIDS
Book Subtitle: Early Diagnostic Clues
Editors: Yu-Ye Li, Kun-Hua Wang, Li He
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5467-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. and People's Medical Publishing House, PR of China 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5466-7Published: 06 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5469-8Published: 07 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5467-4Published: 05 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 271
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 554 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dermatology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health