Cutaneous Manifestations of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Pattern of Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Hiv Infected Patients: A Retrospective Study

“…(5) Dermatological features acts as clinical markers of HIV infection and also reflects the underlying immune status. (6)(7)(8)(9) It may be the presenting feature and a valuable clinical tool in staging and predicting progression of the disease. (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15) …”

Granuloma Annulare and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

“…The differential diagnosis of HIV-associated GA includes a variety of infections, granulomatous lymphoproliferative processes, granulomatous drug reactions, and lichenoid and granulomatous dermatitis of AIDS (LGDA). Granuloma annulare has been described in association with various infectious stimuli, the spectrum of which encompasses Borrelia species, mycobacteria, fungus, HIV, EBV, and hepatitis C, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][28][29][30][31] and hence, it is difficult to exclude that the granulomatous response is related to microbial pathogens other than HIV. Syphilis, mycobacteria, and fungal infection appear unlikely causes of HIV-associated GA. Histological features associated with infection such as tubercles of epithelioid histiocytes, foamy histiocytes, plasma cells, caseation necrosis, and neutrophilic abscesses were absent in all of our biopsy specimens.…”

“…1999;135:1341-1346 C UTANEOUS manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectionarediverseandinclude neoplasms, infections, and inflammatoryconditions. 1,2 In1985,Penneys and Hicks 3 reported the cases of 2 patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS)whopresentedwithadisseminated papular eruption resembling granuloma annulare (GA). Since then, 21 other cases of GA in HIV-infected patients have been reported [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] in the English-language literature.…”

Molluscum contagiosum in HIV-lnfected Patients

“…The full spectrum of skin diseases in HIV-infected patients has been described previously [3,10,11[. How ever, only limited data are available on the distribution and exact clinical presentation of molluscum contagiosum in HIV-infected patients.…”