Childhood Kaposi's sarcoma: clinical features and therapy.

Twelve cases of childhood Kaposi's sarcoma seen at the Uganda Cancer Institute over the last 7 years are reported. The disease presents mainly as generalized lymphadenopathy, with sparsely and anomalously distributed cutaneous nodules, and has a higher proportion of females with the disease tha...

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Autores principales: Olweny, C. L., Kaddumukasa, A., Atine, I., Owor, R., Magrath, I., Ziegler, J. L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1976
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2024961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1276034
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author Olweny, C. L.
Kaddumukasa, A.
Atine, I.
Owor, R.
Magrath, I.
Ziegler, J. L.
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Kaddumukasa, A.
Atine, I.
Owor, R.
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description Twelve cases of childhood Kaposi's sarcoma seen at the Uganda Cancer Institute over the last 7 years are reported. The disease presents mainly as generalized lymphadenopathy, with sparsely and anomalously distributed cutaneous nodules, and has a higher proportion of females with the disease than in the adult form. The histology is usually of mixed cell type. If not treated, childhood Kaposi's sarcoma runs a fulminating course, but disease control with chemotherapy is associated with prolonged survival. IMAGES:
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spelling pubmed-20249612009-09-10 Childhood Kaposi's sarcoma: clinical features and therapy. Olweny, C. L. Kaddumukasa, A. Atine, I. Owor, R. Magrath, I. Ziegler, J. L. Br J Cancer Research Article Twelve cases of childhood Kaposi's sarcoma seen at the Uganda Cancer Institute over the last 7 years are reported. The disease presents mainly as generalized lymphadenopathy, with sparsely and anomalously distributed cutaneous nodules, and has a higher proportion of females with the disease than in the adult form. The histology is usually of mixed cell type. If not treated, childhood Kaposi's sarcoma runs a fulminating course, but disease control with chemotherapy is associated with prolonged survival. IMAGES: Nature Publishing Group 1976-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2024961/ /pubmed/1276034 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Childhood Kaposi's sarcoma: clinical features and therapy.
title Childhood Kaposi's sarcoma: clinical features and therapy.
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