A case of clinically and morphologically typical angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy (AILD) in a 68-year-old man during a prolonged antibiotic treatment for urinary infection is presented. Lymph node biopsy at first showed findings suggestive of an exhaustion of the germinal center immunological activity (like those characterizing angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia). A second lymph node biopsy showed the typical pattern of AILD without any clear transition into malignant lymphoma. The course of the disease was characterized by the occurrence of opportunistic infections (toxoplasmosis, herpes zoster), and finally by the onset of a cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma. The possible relation of AILD to Kaposi's sarcoma is discussed, and the main clinical and morphological data of the cases of AILD (about 200) reported in the literature are reviewed.
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