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    November 1985 in “ Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology ”
    Alfred Hollander
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    TLDR The document summarizes skin and immune system disease findings, especially related to AIDS, from the 1980s.
    The document lists abstracts of various studies and case reports related to dermatology and immunodeficiency diseases, particularly AIDS, from the mid-1980s. It includes findings on opportunistic infections and malignancies associated with AIDS, such as Acanthamoeba infection, chronic ulcerative herpes simplex lesions, molluscum contagiosum, Hodgkin's disease, Kaposi's sarcoma, and tuberculosis. It also references the isolation of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV III) from patients with AIDS or at risk for AIDS. Additionally, there are reports on unrelated dermatological conditions such as Unilateral nevoid telangiectatic syndrome observed during pregnancy, female pattern baldness in a man, pityriasis rubra pilaris with no clear genetic inheritance, and a case of enchondroma misdiagnosed as chronic paronychia. The document does not provide detailed results or participant numbers for these studies and cases.
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