Abstract

LAMBERTINI P, Arianna  and  GUERRA, Maria Elena. Non-hodgkin’s lymphoma associated with aids in the oral cavity. Clinical case. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2007, vol.45, n.1, pp.100-108. ISSN 0001-6365.

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma's risk (NHL) in the persons with infection for the Human of Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is hundred times major with regard to the rest of the population. The incidence of these neoplasms in young men, in the decade of the 80 increased twenty times product of the infection for the HIV. Nevertheless, in the last years, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a cause of a discreet proportion of NHL's cases. These lymphomas are in the habit of appearing in the main of cells B with histology of high degree, principally of the diffuse subtype of big cells, with extranodal frequent compromise and principally in the nervous central system (NCS). In general, the clinical environment and the response to the treatment of the patients with lymphoma related to the AIDS are very different from those of the HIV_negative patient with lymphomas. The individual with aggressive lymphoma that presents infection for HIV appears generally with disease in advanced stage that is in the habit of being extranodal. The clinical course is more aggressive, the disease is more extensive and less sensitive to the chemotherapy. We present Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma’s clinical case in oral cavity in a patient with the characteristics before mentioned that came to the Center of Attention to Patients with Infectious and Contagious Diseases "Dra. Elsa La Corte" of the Faculty of Odontolgy of the Central University of Venezuela, refered by Hematooncology's Center of the same university.

Keywords : Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; HIV/AIDS; Neoplasm.