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Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV/AIDS

Early Diagnostic Clues

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  • 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

  • Department of Dermatology and Venereology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

    Yu-Ye Li, Li He

  • Department of General Surgery, NHC Key Laboratory of Drug Addiction Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

    Kun-Hua Wang

About the editors

Yu-ye Li is the Professor and Director of Department of Dermatology and Venereology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China.



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

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