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Health & Fitness > HIV / AIDS Dermatology and HIV patients: 1 of 1

In people affected by acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome it may often be observed a rise of cutaneous emergencies, whose impact spans from 25% in asyntomatic subjects to 100% in the case of very evident AIDS. The frequency and the atypic nature of these emergencies gives a highlighted role to the dermatologist, characterizi... More..
Health & Fitness > Disease (Other) Xeroderma Pigmentosum: 1 of 1

Hereditary disease, trasmitted with recessive autosomical modality, the XP is characterized from extreme photosensivity that causes strict and premature damages to level of the cutis and of the eyes. Its incidence is of 1:250000 in Europe and USA, while in Japan the relationship is of 1:40000. XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM The first... More..
Health & Fitness > Sexually Transmitted Diseases History of syphilis: 1 of 1

In Italy the disease was manifested in epidemic shape in 1494 with sieges of Naples by the French troops on the orders of Charles VIII who died to the age of 28 years, possibly from cerebral syphilis (G. Del Guerra). A group of approximately 800 prostitutes was aggregated to the French troops and not there is doubt that just... More..
Health & Fitness > Disease (Other) ABCD diagnosis of melanoma: 1 of 1

Malignant Melanoma is the most aggressive of malignant cutaneous tumours. Cases with lymphonode involvement, and distant metastases, carry a very poor prognosis, (50% and 20% respectively alive in 5 years), while those presenting without evident lymphonode involvement have a much better survival rate (60% alive in 5 years). ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Middle Ages History of the Knights Templar: 8 of 10

THE MEDICINE OF THE TEMPLARS. At Paris, 18 March of 1314, on the island of the Seine in front of the Garden real, Jacques de Molay, the last Great Master of the Templars, and Geoffroy de Charny, preceptor of Normandy, were burned as heretics. Thus finishes the history of the Knights of the Temple after two centuries. The Tem... More..
Health & Fitness > Disease (Other) Werner syndrome: 2 of 2

German physician Otto Werner (1879-1936) described the clinical picture of this syndrome in 1904, in four sisters, defining the skin thin, tight, scleroderma-like, that mimics premature aging, with bilateral cataracts associated. Also known by the term "Progeria" - 'prematurely old' Greek derivation, due to the fact that usu... More..