Oral manifestations may be the earliest indicators of HIV infection as it has strong association with oral candidiasis, hairy leukoplakia, linear gingival erythema, necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, periodontitis, Kaposi sarcoma, and lymphoma. Other conditions such diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome, benign lymphoepithelial cyst, salivary gland neoplasm have also been reported in pati...

Objetivo: Revisar casos de malignidades da cavidade oral disponíveis na literatura em receptores transplantes renais. Métodos: Foi realizada uma pesquisa no banco dados PubMed usando os termos “oral cancer”, “mouth neoplasms”, “renal transplantation” e “kidney transplantation”. Independentemente data publicação, as publicações foram escolhidas por dois pesquisadores após considerarem cuidadosam...

INTRODUCTION Oral lesions have been recognised as prominent features of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection since the beginning of the epidemic. OBJECTIVE This descriptive study was conducted to study the types of oral lesions among HIV-infected patients in Singapore. MATERIALS AND METHODS Oral examination was done on 81 randomly selec...

We reviewed the case notes of 203 patients who were treated for sarcomas of the oral and maxillofacial region over a period of 5 years. There were 98 male cases (mean age 31.4 ± 12.8 years) and 105 female cases (mean age 29.3 ± 10.4). Kaposi’s sarcoma accounted for 82.8% cases, and rhabdomyosarcoma 6.9% followed by osteosarcoma and chondrosarcoma at 2.5% each. Except for Kaposi’s sarcoma, surge...

After contradictory findings from a number of previous studies, behavioral risk factors for Kaposi's sarcoma were examined in a case-control study of 202 people diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1991-1993 in Sydney, Australia. Cases comprised 67 men who developed Kaposi's sarcoma at or after a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and controls were 135 peopl...

Several derivatives of mycophenolic acid (MA) were tested for their antitumor activity against leukemia L-1210 when administered orally and carbamoyl mycophenolic acid ethylester (CMAE) was selected as the most active antitumor agent in these tests. An oral administration of CMAE also inhibited the growth of Ehrlich solid carcinoma, NF sarcoma, myeloma X-5563 and sarcoma 180 in mice. In compari...

A granulocytic sarcoma expanded the malar region in a patient with proven myelofibrosis over a 22 month period before undergoing rapid increase in size concomitantly with transformation to acute granulocytic leukaemia in the marrow and the widespread appearance of subcutaneous tumour deposits. Rapid response was obtained with local radiotherapy, and the systemic disease manifestations were cont...

To the Editor: Liposarcoma is the most common soft‐tissue sarcoma and accounts for 20% of all mesenchymal tumors. It usually occurs in the deep soft tissue of extremities and retroperitoneum in adults.[1] Apart from the aforesaid locations, the sarcoma also occurs in sites such as orbit, neck, oral, paratesticular, and salivary gland regions. The number of the cases under the age of 10 years th...