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Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma
Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a cancer that often affects individuals with human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), those who have received an organ transplant, or others who are immunocompromised. KS is a vascular tumor that most often presents in cutaneous sites, includi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656018 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8502 |
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author | Segura, Luis C Goel, Anuj |
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description | Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a cancer that often affects individuals with human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), those who have received an organ transplant, or others who are immunocompromised. KS is a vascular tumor that most often presents in cutaneous sites, including the lower extremities, oral mucosa, and genitalia. Literature regarding KS with ocular involvement is scarce. We present a rare case in which a patient diagnosed with AIDS-associated KS exhibited ocular and diffuse manifestations. The lesions of cutaneous KS are frequently mistaken for an alternative diagnoses; therefore, the clinician should have a high index of suspicion for this vascular tumor in AIDS patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-73463192020-07-10 Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma Segura, Luis C Goel, Anuj Cureus Internal Medicine Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a cancer that often affects individuals with human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), those who have received an organ transplant, or others who are immunocompromised. KS is a vascular tumor that most often presents in cutaneous sites, including the lower extremities, oral mucosa, and genitalia. Literature regarding KS with ocular involvement is scarce. We present a rare case in which a patient diagnosed with AIDS-associated KS exhibited ocular and diffuse manifestations. The lesions of cutaneous KS are frequently mistaken for an alternative diagnoses; therefore, the clinician should have a high index of suspicion for this vascular tumor in AIDS patients. Cureus 2020-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7346319/ /pubmed/32656018 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8502 Text en Copyright © 2020, Segura et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Segura, Luis C Goel, Anuj Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma |
title | Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma |
title_full | Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma |
title_fullStr | Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma |
title_short | Rare Ocular Involvement in a Newly Diagnosed AIDS Patient With Diffuse Kaposi’s Sarcoma |
title_sort | rare ocular involvement in a newly diagnosed aids patient with diffuse kaposi’s sarcoma |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656018 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8502 |
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