title: Photoletter to the editor: Disseminated histoplasmosis with initial oral manifestations.
abstract: Histoplasmosis is a systemic fungal disease that may present in a variety of clinical manifestations. Involvment of the oral mucosa is very rare and may occur as part of disseminated histoplasmosis or as isolated involvement. We present a patient with disseminated histoplasmosis, in whom oral lesions were the initial manifestation of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, S.T.D. and Leprosy, Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi - 110001, India;
authors.forename: Surabhi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Kabir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sardana
authors.forename: Vijay K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Garg
keywords: AIDS; Fungal infection; HIV; histoplasma; mucous membrane; oral mucosa; tongue