Hypervascular Follicular Hyperplasia and Kaposi's Sarcoma in Patients at Risk for AIDS

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  • NHN L Harris
    N L Harris
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To the Editor: Because of the recently described occurrence of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in homosexual men, a large number of homosexual men with persistent unexplained lymphadenopathy are seeking medical attention.1 , 2 Many of these patients do not have diagnostic stigmata of AIDS (defined by the Centers for Disease Control as Kaposi's sarcoma in a patient under 65 years of age or an infection predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity in a patient without a known cause of immunosuppression). Lymph-node biopsy specimens from a majority of these patients have shown nonspecific follicular hyperplasia; a minority have shown burnt-out follicles . . .