Image:Kaposi’s sarcoma intraoral AIDS 072 lores.jpg

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Description
English: This HIV-positive patient presented with an intraoral Kaposi’s sarcoma lesion with an overlying candidiasis infection.
  • This AIDS patient exhibited a CD4+ T-cell count <200, and a high viral load. Initially, the KS lesions are flattened and red, but as they age they become raised, and darker, tending to a purple coloration.
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Date

1999
Author
  • Photo Credit: Sol Silverman, Jr., D.D.S.
  • Content Providers: CDC/ Sol Silverman, Jr., D.D.S., University of California, San Francisco
Permission
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Public domain This image is a work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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current22:26, 31 May 2006700×464 (49 KB)Patho ({{Information| |Description=ID#: 6058 Description: This HIV-positive patient presented with an intraoral Kaposi’s sarcoma lesion with an overlying candidiasis infection. This AIDS patient exhibited a CD4+ T-cell count <200, and a high viral load. Initi)
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