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Otolaryngologic and head and neck manifestations of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Laryngoscope. 1985 Apr;95(4):401-5. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/85162658
Marcusen DC; Sooy CD

Abstract: Patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) frequently present with signs and symptoms referable to the head and neck. Three hundred ninety-nine patients with AIDS presented at the University of California, San Francisco and its affiliated hospitals from 1980 to April 1984. One hundred sixty-five patients (41%) with AIDS presented with, or had on initial evaluation, head and neck manifestations. Of that group, 58 (35%) had cutaneous, oral, and pharyngeal lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma; 51 (31%) had oral, pharyngeal, esophageal, or laryngeal candidiasis; 36 (22%) had chronic cough and shortness of breath; 13 (8%) had rapidly enlarging neck masses; and 7 (4%) had herpes simplex lesions. With the increasing number of cases of AIDS it is important for the otolaryngologist to be aware of these presentations.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS Adolescence Adult Burkitt's Lymphoma/ETIOLOGY Candidiasis/ETIOLOGY Cough/ETIOLOGY Esophageal Diseases/ETIOLOGY Head and Neck Neoplasms/ETIOLOGY Herpes Simplex/ETIOLOGY Human Middle Age Mouth Diseases/ETIOLOGY Mycobacterium avium Mycobacterium Infections, Atypical/ETIOLOGY Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases/*ETIOLOGY Pharyngeal Diseases/ETIOLOGY Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii/ETIOLOGY Sarcoma, Kaposi's/ETIOLOGY Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/ETIOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLE

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