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From: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection97
Red Book® 2015, 2015
Figure Legend:
An 8-year-old boy with HIV and tuberculous lymphadenitis (scrofula). Copious amounts of pus spontaneously drained from this lesion. In an immunocompromised child, other causes of lymphadenitis include infections with gram-positive bacteria, atypical mycobacterium, and Bartonella henselae (cat-scratch disease); malignant neoplasms such as lymphoma; masses such as branchial cleft cysts or cystic hygromas masquerading as lymph nodes; and adenitis due to HIV itself. (See also Diseases Caused by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria.) Copyright Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative/Mark Kline, MD, FAAP
Date of download: 11/15/2017
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