TY - BOOK ID - 14306396 TI - Eating disorders and the skin PY - 2012 SN - 364229135X 9786613925091 3642291368 128361264X PB - Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Dermatology. KW - Eating disorders -- Diagnosis. KW - Medicine. KW - Skin manifestations. KW - Cutaneous manifestations of general diseases KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Eating Disorders KW - Signs and Symptoms KW - Mental Disorders KW - Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Diseases KW - Skin Manifestations KW - Anorexia Nervosa KW - Diagnosis KW - Bulimia Nervosa KW - Medicine KW - Psychiatry KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Internal Medicine KW - Dermatology KW - Psychiatric Disorders, Individual KW - Eating disorders KW - Skin KW - Complications. KW - Diseases. KW - Cutaneous diseases KW - Disorders of eating KW - Eating, Pathological KW - Eating disturbances KW - Eating dysfunctions KW - Pathological eating KW - General practice (Medicine). KW - Internal medicine. KW - Psychiatry. KW - Oral surgery. KW - Maxillofacial surgery. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. KW - General Practice / Family Medicine. KW - Internal Medicine. KW - Dermatoses KW - Appetite disorders KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Surgery. KW - Family medicine. KW - Medicine and psychology KW - Mental health KW - Medicine, Internal KW - Family practice (Medicine) KW - General practice (Medicine) KW - Physicians (General practice) KW - Surgery, Primitive KW - Dental surgery KW - Oral surgery KW - Surgery, Dental KW - Surgery, Oral KW - Oral surgeons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14306396 AB - At least 40 skin signs are associated with eating disorders (EDs), and some of them are considered guiding signs because they are indicative of an otherwise hidden ED. These skin signs may arise due to starvation, self-induced vomiting, drug consumption, and concomitant psychiatric illness. The role of the dermatologist in this context is to suspect the presence of a hidden ED based on the guiding signs. With this in mind, the most important specialists in the field come together in this book to document all of the dermatological aspects of EDs. General topics such as classification of EDs, epidemiology, and medical complications are first addressed, and skin signs attributable to various causes are then discussed in a series of detailed chapters. Characteristic changes in the hair, nails, and oral cavity are also carefully documented. The closing chapters address various other related issues of interest, including pain sensitivity in patients with EDs and the effects of anorexia nervosa on skin thickness and skin collagen. Eating Disorders and the Skin will be an invaluable source of up-to-date information for both novice and experienced dermatologists, as well as other practitioners with an interest in EDs, psychiatrists, and nurses. ER -