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Labial tuberculosis: a unique cause of lip swelling complicating HIV infection
S E Ilyas1, F F Chen, T A Hodgson
1Oral Medicine, Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences, UCL, University of London, London, UK.
HIV Medicine
|November 26, 2002
Abstract
Background:
HIV disease has many oral manifestations including tuberculosis, which most commonly presents as irregular ulceration of the tongue or the palate. We detail an HIV-infected patient found to have tuberculosis of the lip.
Conclusions:
To our knowledge tuberculosis of the lips has never been reported in conjunction with HIV infection, and in this case establishing the oral diagnosis resulted in the diagnosis of disseminated disease.