Mouth and pharyngeal hyperalgesic syndromes in AIDS
Gehanno, P.; Barry, B.; Depondt, J.; Guedon, C.; Poignonec, S.; Leport, C.; Gorin, I.
Annales d'Oto-Laryngologie et de Chirurgie Cervico Faciale Bulletin de la Societe d'Oto-Laryngologie des Hopitaux de Paris 107(5): 311-313
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-438X PMID: 2221724 Document Number: 352363
In a series of 12 patients suffering from an HIV infection, including 9 with confirmed AIDS, who complained about pharyngeal pain in a fixed site, having a progressive intensity and not relieved by antalgics and the specific treatments that were prescribed empirically, and for whom etiological investigation yielded negative results, Thalidomide proved to be the only effective means of healing the exulcerated, nail-mark lesions or the ulcerated, budding, neoplastic-like lesions, and of completely suppressing pain.