When the skin speaks what HIV dictates: a series of particular cases of cutaneous manifestations in HIV
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Background Recent data show that almost 75% of HIV patients have muco-cutaneous diseases, the proportion of patients with dermatoses being inversely proportional to the CD4 + and directly proportional to the stage of disease. Papulo-pustular eruption is the most common pruritic dermatosis in patients with HIV infection, followed by seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, molluscum contagiosum and drug reactions.
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دوره 14 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2014