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Syphilis in an HIV-infected patient.
Cunha, H M; Pacheco, M H; Rodrigues, A; Cardoso, J; Ferreira, F P; Malhado, J AWe report the case of a 28-year-old female prostitute, intravenous drug user, seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus and with unusual manifestations of lues infection. The presence of plantar keratoderma, alopecia of the scalp, total loss of hair eyebrows and eyelashes with bilateral chorioretinitis is emphasised. Non-treponemal and treponemal tests for syphilis showed reactivity, but with abnormal serol...
Primary lymphoma of the central nervous system in a patient with AIDS.
Bau, J; Teotónio, R; Pacheco, M H; Mafra, M; Coutinho, FThe increasing incidence of primary brain lymphoma appears to be real in immunologically normal people. However, lymphoma of the central nervous system has a much higher incidence in patients with immune deficient status as in renal and cardiac transplants, patients with IgA deficiency, or Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Thus, the increased predisposition of AIDS patients to brain lymphoma is not surprising, this bei...