Oral hairy leukoplakia: observations in 95 cases and review of the literature

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-204892
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.20489

Reichart, P. A. ; Langford, A. ; Gelderblom, H. R. ; Pohle, H. D. ; Becker, J. ; Wolf, Hans J.

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Abstract

Oral hairy leukoplakia (HL) was observed in 25.4% of 373 HIV-seropositive patients (n = 95). 87 were men of an average age of 37.1 yr, 8 were women (30.3 yr). 71.6% of the patients were male homosexuals. At initial diagnosis of HL the majority of cases was classified as CDC IVc1 (45.3%) and CDC II (22.1%). Average CD4/CD8 ratio (n = 19) was 0.24 with a range of 0.04-1.0. Thirty biopsies of HL ...