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Paying more than lip service to an oral lesion: a case of plasmablastic lymphoma
Yasbanoo Moayedi1, Erik Steven Venos, Hasan Ghaffar
1Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
BMJ Case Reports
|July 18, 2012
Abstract:
Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a variant of lymphoma originally described in the oral cavity of patients with advanced HIV. Our patient developed PBL despite well-controlled HIV and a CD4 count greater than 800 cells/µl. A drug interaction with an inhaled corticosteroid and ritonavir likely contributed to the development of this malignancy through increased immune suppression.
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