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Figure 1. A 30-year-old man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (CD4 cell count, 14 per cubic millimeter) presented with a six-month history of enlarging facial lesions. The lesions had not responded to a six-week course of oral acyclovir (800 mg five times a day). The patient had no history of herpes or any other opportunistic infections. His only other medications were dapsone and fluconazole. On examination, he was afebrile and had extensive, friable, hemorrhagic crusts with impetiginization of the chin and around the nares (Panel A). He also had aphthous ulcers on the soft palate and the anterior portion . . . [Full Text of this Article] |