title: Sporotrichosis in an HIV-positive man with oral lesions: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sporotrichosis is a granulomatous fungal infection caused by Sporothrix schenckii, which frequently causes cutaneous or lymphocutaneous lesions and rarely has oral manifestations.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 38-year-old, white, HIV-positive man complained of a 5.0-cm, symptomatic, ulcerated lesion with thin, superficial granulation in the soft palate extending to the uvula. Exfoliative cytology of this oral lesion showed chronic granulomatous inflammatory alterations and extracellular fungal structures consisting of periodic acid-Schiff-positive budding cells and spherical or elongated (cigar bodies) free spore forms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The clinical and cytologic findings allowed the diagnosis of sporotrichosis, demonstrating the importance of cytodiagnosis in fungal diseases.
authors: Postgraduate Program in Oral Biopathology and Department of Biosciences and Oral Diagnosis, São José dos Campos Dental School, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors: Patrícia Campos
authors: PC
authors: Fontes
authors: Dárcio
authors: D
authors: Kitakawa
authors: Yasmin Rodarte
authors: YR
authors: Carvalho
authors: Adriana Aigotti Haberbeck
authors: AA
authors: Brandão
authors: Luiz Antonio Guimarães
authors: LA
authors: Cabral
authors: Janete Dias
authors: JD
authors: Almeida
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000473:pathology; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D013174:Sporotrichosis / Q000150:complications*