Article
An unusual case of bacillary angiomatosis in the oral cavity of an AIDS patient who had no concomitant tegumentary lesions - case report and review
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SILVA, Walter de Araujo Eyer; et al. An unusual case of bacillary angiomatosis in the oral cavity of an AIDS patient who had no concomitant tegumentary lesions – case report and review. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo, v.59: e59, 4p, 2017.
0036-4665
10.1590/S1678-9946201759059
1678-9946
Autor
Silva, Walter de Araujo Eyer
Soares, Pedro Eugênio Mendes Arena
Azevedo, Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes de
Silva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa da
Signorini, Dario José Hart Pontes
Motta, Rogerio Neves
Pinto, Jorge Francisco da Cunha
Moura, Lívia Machado
Oliveira, Rodrigo Panno Basílio de
Araujo, Luciana Ferreira de
Favacho, Alexsandra Rodrigues de Mendonça
Lemos, Elba Regina Sampaio
Resumen
Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is an angioproliferative disease of immunocompromised patients that usually presents as vascular tumors in the skin and subcutaneous tissues. It is caused by chronic infections with either Bartonella henselae or B. quintana. Oral cavity BA is exceedingly rare and even rarer without simultaneous cutaneous disease. We report herein the case of a 51-year-old HIV-infected man who presented severe odynophagia and an eroded lesion on the hard palate that progressed to an oronasal fistula. No cutaneous lesions were recorded. Doxycycline led to complete resolution. To the best of our knowledge, only six previous cases of oral BA without tegumentary disease have been previously reported and none of them progressed to fistula.