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Vanessa Santos Cunha1, Jorge David Rocha Zanol, Eduardo Sprinz
1Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. vscunha@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Riga-Fede disease is a benign and ulcerative process that occurs as a result of repetitive trauma of the oral mucosal surfaces by the teeth. The authors describe here a case of a 40-year-old man in rescue therapy for advanced AIDS with a 2-month history of an ulcerated area on the dorsal surface of his tongue, which was histopathologically consistent with Riga-Fede disease. This case report is unique because it is the first time that this lesion has been reported in an AIDS patient, and Riga-Fede disease should be included in the differential diagnosis of a tongue ulcer in these populations.
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