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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Paying more than lip service to an oral lesion: a case of plasmablastic lymphoma
  1. Yasbanoo Moayedi1,
  2. Erik Steven Venos1,
  3. Hasan Ghaffar2,
  4. Kevin A Gough3,
  5. Lisa K Hicks3
  1. 1Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. 2Department of Pathology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. 3Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lisa Hicks, HicksL{at}smh.ca

Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a variant of lymphoma originally described in the oral cavity of patients with advanced HIV. Our patient developed PBL despite well-controlled HIV and a CD4 count greater than 800 cells/µl. A drug interaction with an inhaled corticosteroid and ritonavir likely contributed to the development of this malignancy through increased immune suppression.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-006452

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