Oral manifestations of AIDS in a heterosexual population in a Zaire hospital.

Oral lesions associated with HIV infection as classified by the WHO Collaborative Centre for Oral manifestation of HIV were studied in 83 heterosexual AIDS patients in Kinshasa, Zaire. One or more lesions were fungal (94%), bacterial (33%) and viral (23%). Neoplasm was found in 12% of cases while lesions of unknown etiology in 14%.

Parotid swelling during human immunodeficiency virus infection.

In Europe and in the United States, bilateral parotid gland swelling has been observed as a sign of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children, but it has not been associated with HIV infection in adults. We observed a chronic parotid gland swelling in nine HIV-seropositive patients during a nine-month period in Kinshasa, Zaire. Parotid gland enlargement was bilateral in seven patients (78%), slightly painful in seven patients (78%), and painless in two patients (22%).

[Irradiation of basal cell epitheliomas of the face: a handicap for the surgeon in some cases of recurrence (author's transl)].

A case is reported which illustrates the progressive relapsing nature and local invasive character of certain irradiated basal cell epitheliomas. One such case, that involved the tragus initially, and had been irradiated on five occasions, successively invaded the lobe of the ear, the auditory canal, the helix, the mastoid, and the zygomatotemporal region in spite of six operations and the use of cryotherapy.