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RESEARCH PRODUCT
La diagnostica delle malattie infettive: Tra metafora del passato e itinerario nel futuro
A.e. Cardinalesubject
Radiological and Ultrasound TechnologyAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)business.industryImaging diagnosticHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)MedicineRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingNeurology (clinical)Medical emergencybusinessmedicine.diseasemedicine.disease_causedescription
A global emergency is threatening mankind, awakening dead ghosts and causing alarm about our present and future: it is the apparently irreversible spread of infectious diseases.This critical and worrying situation should be acknowledged and carefully followed by the radiological profession since all of us – teachers, specialists, professionals – have to deal with imaging diagnostic modalities deriving information from a deceitful and camouflageing anatomo-functional substratum.The increasing spread of infectious diseases is due to a wide range of concomitant factors: HIV infection, drug addiction, migration fenomena and the related opportunistic infections combined with poor hygienic, physical and environmental conditions.The focus is on AIDS and tubercolosis which are today massively aggressive, causing global alarm since no nation has been able to solve this problem. The spread of he HIV infection – the prototype of virus-induced cell-mediated immunodepression – and the abovementioned concomitant causes...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-05-01 | Rivista di Neuroradiologia |