Related Experiment Videos
Oral hairy leukoplakia in an HIV-seronegative heart transplant patient
A Schmidt-Westhausen1, H R Gelderblom, P A Reichart
1Abteilung für zahnärztliche Chirurgie/Oralchirurgie, Nord, Freie Universität Berlin.
Abstract:
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.