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Description	English: This HIV patient presented with labial and gingival Kaposi’s sarcoma secondary to his AIDS infection which included the maxilla. In approximately 7.5-10 percent of AIDS patients display signs of oral Kaposi’s sarcoma, and can range in appearance from a small asymptomatic growths that are flat purple-red in color, to larger nodular growths
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Date	1987
Author	Photo Credit: Sol Silverman, Jr., D.D.S. Content Providers: CDC/ Sol Silverman, Jr., D.D.S., University of California, San Francisco
Permission (Reusing this image)	PD-USGov-HHS-CDC English: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.

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