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Edited By
Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini, Rheumatology Unit, L Sacco University, Milan, Italy
Andrea Doria, Division of Rheumatology, University of Padova, Italy
Annegret Kuhn, Department of Dermatology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Ronald Asherson, Killarney, Johannesburg, South Africa
Giampietro Girolomoni, Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences, Section of Dermatology, University of Verona, Italy
Included in series
Handbook of Systematic Autoimmune Diseases,
Description
This book represents the state-of-the-art in the field of skin and autoimmune rheumatic diseases. It covers systematically a growing and
multifaceted topic which is of great importance in the clinical practice. It also serves as a sharp educational tool as each chapter
provides summaries and specific highlights to key references cited into the text. The pathophysiological link between skin involvement
and autoimmunity has been explained in detail, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.
This book yields an impressive body of
well ordered information which summarizes the experience of a selected panel of distinguished physicians and scientists actively involved
in the field of skin immunology and systemic autoimmunity.
Audience
Dermatologists, rheumatologists, internal medicine specialists, immunologists, medical/scientific management and pharmaceutical Companies
Contents
THE SKIN AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
The skin as an immunologic organ
T cells and dendritic cells in immuno-mediated skin pathology
The
skin cytokine-chemokine network
Autoantibodies and skin involvement in systemic autoimmune diseases.
Outcome measure in autoimmune skin
diseases.
Capillaroscopy: which is its role in the diagnosis of connective tissue diseases?
SKIN INVOLVEMENT IN SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE
DISEASES
Photosensitivity in rheumatic diseases.
LE-specific and LE-non specific skin manifestations in SLE
Subacute cutaneous lupus
erythematosus
Differential diagnosis of LE-specific skin lesions
Skin alterations in antiphospholipid syndrome
Systemic sclerosis
Dermatitis
in dermatopolymiositis
Mucocutaneous manifestations of Sjogren?s syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis and the skin
Rcurrent oral aphtosis and
skin manifestations in Bechet?s disease
SKIN MANIFESTATIONS IN VASCULITIDIS
Leukocytoclastic and urticarial vasculitis
Henoch-Schoenlein
purpura
Essential Mixed Cryoglobulinemia
Granulomatous vasculitis
Kawasaki
NEW INSIGHT IN THE TREATMENT OF SKIN MANIFESTATIONS OF
SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
Skin targets for new biological agents in systemic autoimmune diseases
New trends in systemic immunosuppressive
treatment
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 358 pages, publication date: JAN-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52158-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-52158-5
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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