An Update on Kaposi’s Sarcoma: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Treatment

Kaposi’s sarcoma is an angioproliferative neoplasm which has undergone considerable epidemiologic change since the original description by Moritz Kaposi in the late 1800s. This opportunistic neoplasm gained widespread notoriety within the US during the height of the AIDS epidemic, where it was frequ...

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Autores principales: Curtiss, Paul, Strazzulla, Lauren C., Friedman-Kien, Alvin E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27804093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13555-016-0152-3
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description Kaposi’s sarcoma is an angioproliferative neoplasm which has undergone considerable epidemiologic change since the original description by Moritz Kaposi in the late 1800s. This opportunistic neoplasm gained widespread notoriety within the US during the height of the AIDS epidemic, where it was frequently found co-occurring with opportunistic infections. With the advent of modern antiretroviral therapies, as well as an increasing number of individuals on immunosuppression for autoimmune disease or organ transplantation, the landscape of the immunocompromised individual has changed. It is now important for clinicians to be mindful of Kaposi’s sarcoma manifesting in a growing variety of clinical contexts.
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spelling pubmed-51206402016-12-07 An Update on Kaposi’s Sarcoma: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Treatment Curtiss, Paul Strazzulla, Lauren C. Friedman-Kien, Alvin E. Dermatol Ther (Heidelb) Commentary Kaposi’s sarcoma is an angioproliferative neoplasm which has undergone considerable epidemiologic change since the original description by Moritz Kaposi in the late 1800s. This opportunistic neoplasm gained widespread notoriety within the US during the height of the AIDS epidemic, where it was frequently found co-occurring with opportunistic infections. With the advent of modern antiretroviral therapies, as well as an increasing number of individuals on immunosuppression for autoimmune disease or organ transplantation, the landscape of the immunocompromised individual has changed. It is now important for clinicians to be mindful of Kaposi’s sarcoma manifesting in a growing variety of clinical contexts. Springer Healthcare 2016-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5120640/ /pubmed/27804093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13555-016-0152-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided 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.
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