Multi-focal oral non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in an AIDS patient.
Cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) occurring in immunosuppressed patients, including those who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, may develop in areas other than the lymph nodes. In AIDS-associated NHL, about 5% of cases of extranodal NHL are intra-oral. This case report describes the presentation of malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mouth of a man who had AIDS. The lesion arose on separate occasions at three distinct sites, spontaneously regressing at each site prior to appearing at another intra-oral site.
Dodd
C L
CL
Department of Stomatology, University of California San Francisco 94143-0512.
Greenspan
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D
Heinic
G S
GS
Rabanus
J P
JP
Greenspan
J S
JS
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D016483:Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local