Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female

We report atypical case of Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in a 32-year-old human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-) infected female, involving only the tongue. Viral loads and CD4 T cells were measured and were 65,000 cps/mL and 10 cells/mL, respectively. This patient was newly diagnosed and had no history of anti...

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Autores principales: Shao, Elichilia, Ruhangisa, Flora, Minja, Neema, Nnko, Kanankira, Katundu, Denis, Semango, George, Mbwilo, Eva, Mwasamwaja, Amos, Kilonzo, Kajiru, Lyaruu, Isaack
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26664777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/851462
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author Shao, Elichilia
Ruhangisa, Flora
Minja, Neema
Nnko, Kanankira
Katundu, Denis
Semango, George
Mbwilo, Eva
Mwasamwaja, Amos
Kilonzo, Kajiru
Lyaruu, Isaack
author_facet Shao, Elichilia
Ruhangisa, Flora
Minja, Neema
Nnko, Kanankira
Katundu, Denis
Semango, George
Mbwilo, Eva
Mwasamwaja, Amos
Kilonzo, Kajiru
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description We report atypical case of Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in a 32-year-old human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-) infected female, involving only the tongue. Viral loads and CD4 T cells were measured and were 65,000 cps/mL and 10 cells/mL, respectively. This patient was newly diagnosed and had no history of antiretroviral therapy (ART), radiotherapy, or immunosuppressive drugs prior to this admission. Clinically, there were no dermatological features of KS lesions which are purple, red, or brown and which may be flat, raised (plaques), or bumpy (nodules) except for fungating and protruding enlarged tongue which was necrotic. Histologically, it was proven to be the most common type of KS “epidemic” or AIDS-related KS.
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spelling pubmed-46647892015-12-09 Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female Shao, Elichilia Ruhangisa, Flora Minja, Neema Nnko, Kanankira Katundu, Denis Semango, George Mbwilo, Eva Mwasamwaja, Amos Kilonzo, Kajiru Lyaruu, Isaack Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report We report atypical case of Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) in a 32-year-old human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-) infected female, involving only the tongue. Viral loads and CD4 T cells were measured and were 65,000 cps/mL and 10 cells/mL, respectively. This patient was newly diagnosed and had no history of antiretroviral therapy (ART), radiotherapy, or immunosuppressive drugs prior to this admission. Clinically, there were no dermatological features of KS lesions which are purple, red, or brown and which may be flat, raised (plaques), or bumpy (nodules) except for fungating and protruding enlarged tongue which was necrotic. Histologically, it was proven to be the most common type of KS “epidemic” or AIDS-related KS. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4664789/ /pubmed/26664777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/851462 Text en Copyright © 2015 Elichilia Shao et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ruhangisa, Flora
Minja, Neema
Nnko, Kanankira
Katundu, Denis
Semango, George
Mbwilo, Eva
Mwasamwaja, Amos
Kilonzo, Kajiru
Lyaruu, Isaack
Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female
title Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female
title_full Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female
title_fullStr Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female
title_full_unstemmed Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female
title_short Atypical Kaposi Sarcoma of the Tongue in HIV Positive Tanzanian Female
title_sort atypical kaposi sarcoma of the tongue in hiv positive tanzanian female
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4664789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26664777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/851462
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