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A 56-year-old married woman from Nigeria presented with severe right-sided orofacial pain for 2 weeks. The intense, dull, constant pain in the right maxilla preceded by 3 days the onset of oral soreness. The patient also complained of fatigue, episodes of fever (38 °C) and cervical lymphadenopathy. She had not taken any medicines, apart from analgesics. She had been recently diagnosed as HIV+ve. None of her relatives, to her knowledge, had similar lesions.
Clinical examination revealed multiple painful ulcerations on the right side of her face, mainly on her malar area and nose (Figure 1), together with scattered erosions in the right side of her palate to the middle line (Figure 2). No other lesions were found on her body.
Q1: Which other disease has appeared simultaneously with HIV infection?
A1. The answer to which other disease has appeared simultaneously with her HIV infection?
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