CANDIDA-ASSOCIATED PALATAL PAPILLARY HYPERPLASIA IN HIV-INFECTION

Oral Candida infections may appear in many guises, especially in HIV-i nfected individuals. Whereas the pseudomembranous and the erythematous forms of oral candidiasis are the most frequently encountered in such patients, there appear to be further clinical variants of this diseas e. This paper describes seven dentate homosexual AIDS patients who dev eloped papillary hyperplasia of the palate which was associated with C andida infection. Such lesions, classically related to denture stomati tis, have rarely been described in dentate patients, and this report f urther expands the spectrum of candidal infections seen in HIV disease .