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Query: UMLS:C0021051 (
immunodeficiency
)
71,517
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Two women with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection are described who were seen with painful aphthous vaginal ulceration and CD4+ lymphocyte counts < 50 cells/mm3. A chronic rectovaginal fistula developed in one patient. In spite of extensive investigation no underlying cause of the ulceration was discovered. Clinical therapeutic response suggests that corticosteroid therapy may be of value in healing or stabilizing the destructive process. Clinicians should be aware of this complication in human
immunodeficiency
virus-infected women with severe
vaginal pain
and unexplained discharge.
...
PMID:Aphthous vaginal ulceration in two women with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 906 54
