A CLINICO.PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ANAL FISTULAE

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antiviral therapy benefits patients wrttr histotogically sonfirmed disease;
and 4) in patients with persistent immune deficiency( for example, AIDS),
virologic, histologic, and symptomatic relapse occurs after cessation of
antiviral therapy.
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A reasonable definition of cMV intestinal disease(as opposed to
infection only) is an erosive or ulcerative process in the wall of the gut in
which the presence of cMv is shown by routine histologic examination,
culture, or antigen or DNA staining, in a person in whom other
explanations for the lesion (s) have been excluded.
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Fig. l0: Endoscopic gastric mucosal biopsy specimen from an AIDS
patient with severe nausea, vomiting, and epigasric pain.showing tlpical
cytomegalic cell shows a large, densely stained nucleus with
intracytoplasmic inclusions (original maginfication x400).
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cytornegalovirus disease in the setting of immunodeficiency can be
the result of either a primary cMv infection in a previously uninfected
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