Accuracy of diagnoses of HIV-related oral lesions by medical clinicians. Findings from the Women's Interagency HIV Study.

Objective: To determine if medical clinicians are as accurate as dental clinicians in recognizing diagnostic characteristics of HIV-related oral lesions.

Methods: In 355 HIV-infected participants at five Women's Interagency HIV Study sites, we paired oral examinations conducted within 7 days of each other by dental and medical clinicians. We used the former as a gold standard against which to evaluate the accuracy of the latter.

Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy: report of case.

A case of a five-year-old African American female with sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is presented. The epidemiology, morbidity, and management aspects of this condition are discussed.

Cortical defects in the mandibular sulcus.

Examination of 5366 dry mandibles at the Smithsonian Institution revealed three cases of unilateral lingual defects superior to the mandibular foramen. The differential diagnosis includes a neuroma, neurolemmoma, hemangioma, or aneurysm of the inferior alveolar artery. The clinical significance of a vascular neoplasm or aneurysm would be the likelihood of increasing the risk of injecting the anesthetic solution directly into a blood vessel.

Osseous repair with Le Fort I osteotomy.

The effectiveness of rigid and semirigid fixation at various distances between Le Fort I osteotomy segments after different healing periods was evaluated in 16 Macaca fasicularis monkeys. The histologic findings revealed better healing with semirigid fixation.