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Oral hairy leukoplakia in a patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia
Author(s) -
Nicolatou O.,
Nikolatos G.,
Fisfis M.,
Belegrati M.,
Papadaki T.,
Oikonomaki E.,
Kalmantis T.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
oral diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.953
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1601-0825
pISSN - 1354-523X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-0825.1999.tb00067.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatology , acute leukemia , chronic lymphocytic leukemia , leukoplakia , leukemia , disease , acute lymphocytic leukemia , pathology , gastroenterology , cancer , lymphoblastic leukemia
The first case of oral hairy leukoplakia (OHL) in an HIV‐negative 56‐year‐old patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is reported. A white plaque was observed while the patient was in complete remission which followed the chemotherapeutic scheme. The clinical and histopathologic findings were typical for OHL and the polymerase chain reaction method was positive for Epstein‐Barr virus DNA.Underdiagnosis and underreporting of OHL in patients with a malignant haematolog‐ical disease and the apparent different environmental factors to which these non‐AIDS patients have been exposed, probably constitute some of the reasons for the very few OHL cases reported in these patients.