TY - JOUR
T1 - Kaposi’s sarcoma in an hiv-negative patient
AU - Callahan, Shields
AU - Kim, Randie H.
AU - Brinster, Nooshin
AU - Latkowski, Jo Ann
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We report an HIV-negative, 55-year-old man with recurrent Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) of the lower extremities, who does not fit into any of the four previously described variants of KS: classic KS, AIDS-related KS, iatrogenic KS, and Africanendemic KS. There are reports in the literature of childhood-onset KS, which is thought to be due to an inherited immune deficiency that confers a higher susceptibility to human Herpesvirus-8 (HHV- 8), which is the virus that is known to cause KS. Our patient may be affected with an inherited immune deficiency that has predisposed him to KS, and this mutation also may account for his prostate and bladder cancer.
AB - We report an HIV-negative, 55-year-old man with recurrent Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) of the lower extremities, who does not fit into any of the four previously described variants of KS: classic KS, AIDS-related KS, iatrogenic KS, and Africanendemic KS. There are reports in the literature of childhood-onset KS, which is thought to be due to an inherited immune deficiency that confers a higher susceptibility to human Herpesvirus-8 (HHV- 8), which is the virus that is known to cause KS. Our patient may be affected with an inherited immune deficiency that has predisposed him to KS, and this mutation also may account for his prostate and bladder cancer.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006856451
VL - 22
SP - 14
EP - 16
JO - Dermatology Online Journal
JF - Dermatology Online Journal
SN - 1087-2108
IS - 12
ER -