Oral cavity & oropharynx
Infectious
Candidiasis (thrush)
Topic Completed: 1 June 2013
Minor changes: 12 October 2020
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Table of Contents
Definition / general | Case reports | Clinical images | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: DeVilliers P, Thakral C. Candidiasis (thrush). PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/oralcavitycandida.html. Accessed April 13th, 2021.
Definition / general
- Normal flora that overgrows due to AIDS, antibiotics, diabetes, immunosuppression (Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal 2013;18:e381), neutropenia, xerostomia
Case reports
- 45 year old HIV+ man (Case Rep Dent 2011;2011:929616)
Clinical images
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Various images
45 year old man:
Retrocommissural area
Palate
Angular cheilitis
Gross description
- Superficial curdy, gray-white membranes that easily wipe off (pseudomembranous candidiasis) or painful erosions (erythematous candidiasis)
Microscopic (histologic) description
- PAS+ hyphae within keratin layer in neutrophilic background; prominent inflammatory infiltrate along the lamina propria
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Candidal hyphae
