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Report of 4 Cases

José Juan Morales-Aguirre, MD; Jaime Alberto Patiño-Niño, MD; Mónica Mendoza-Azpiri, MD; Claudia Patricia Villalobos-Acosta, MD; Demóstenes Gómez-Barreto, MD; Carlos de la Torre, MD; Miguel Cashat-Cruz, MD, MSc

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:353-355.

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INTRODUCTION

Cysts of the parotid glands were initially described in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1988, as multiple cystic lesions associated with cervical lymphadenopathy and demonstrated by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.¹ Parotid enlargement has been reported in approximately 1% to 10% of the population infected with HIV-1, mainly in adults.^2-5 In the pediatric HIV population, its prevalence is 1% to 10%.² In a published series of Mexican children infected with HIV, a prevalence of 2.1% was demonstrated.³ However, information on parotid cysts in children with HIV/AIDS is scarce, as there is just 1 case report from 1991.⁵ Furthermore, in recent years a reduction in the incidence of this abnormality has been observed with the introduction of highly active antiretroviral . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Author Affiliations: Departments of Infectious Diseases (Drs Morales-Aguirre, Patiño-Niño, and Gómez-Barreto), Epidemiology (Drs Mendoza-Azpiri, Villalobos-Acosta, and Cashat-Cruz), and Otolaryngology (Dr de la Torre), Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, México DF, México.

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