EDITORIAL REVIEWS -
SKIN MANIFESTATIONS OF AIDS
DOODY REVIEW SERVICES
Reviewer:Joseph McGuire, MD(Stanford University Medical Center)
Description:This is the second edition of a profusely illustrated text on skin
manifestations of AIDS. Just as syphilis and tuberculosis enriched and
confounded diagnosis of skin disease, AIDS has now come along and jolted our
comfortable pigeon holes of morphological assignments. The involvement of skin
in AIDS is challenging for morphologists and has given us a new set of clinical
pictures to identify, name, and attempt to treat.
Purpose:Confrontation with AIDS challenges our diagnostic skills and reminds us
of other historic battles with smallpox, plague, polio, tuberculosis, and
syphilis inter alia. As once was