PEDIATRICS Vol. 82 No. 4 October 1988, pp. 678
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AIDS-Associated Lymphoma of the Brain in a Child

PIETRO COCCHI MD1, GIUSEPPE CALABRI MD1, GIUSEPPE SALVI MD1, ROSSELLA NIERI MD1, MAURIZIO DE MARTINO MD1, and SILVIA DI LOLLO MD2

1 Pediatric AIDS Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florence, Florence 50132, Italy
2 Istituto di Anatomia Patologica, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

To the Editor.—

Non-Hodgkin primary lymphoma of the CNS in children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has now been included by the Centers for Disease Control in the classification system of pediatric acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).1 We report here a lymphoma of the brain associated with AIDS in a 12-month-old child.

The patient was a male infant, weighing 3,000 g at birth, born to a former intravenous drug-addict HIV-seropositive mother. His growth had always been poor.