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Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia and recurrent vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia
K Park1, B J Monk, S Wilczynski
1Department of Gynecologic Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Durate, California, USA.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
|October 1, 1994
Abstract
Background:
CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia immunodeficiency without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been reported recently. The association between immunodeficiency and anogenital neoplasia secondary to human papillomavirus infections is well documented.
Case:
A woman with recurrent vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) had idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia without HIV infection.
Conclusion:
Human papillomavirus-related VIN may be associated with idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia.