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Oral hairy leukoplakia in an HIV‐seronegative heart transplant patient
Author(s) -
SchmidtWesthausen Andrea,
Gelderblom Hans R.,
Reichart Peter A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1990.tb00823.x
Subject(s) - leukoplakia , medicine , serology , pathology , immunohistochemistry , lesion , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , staining , oral mucosa , dermatology , antibody , immunology , cancer
While oral hairy leukoplakia has been observed predominantly in patients with HIV‐infection at various stages, recent reports have shown that HL may also occur in patients immunosuppressed for other reasons. This report describes oral hairy leukoplakia in a heart transplant recipient with negative HIV serology. The histopathologic diagnosis of HL was confirmed by immunohistochemical detection of EBV‐VCA in the surface epithelium of the lesion and by negative staining electron microscopy.