Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)

Head and neck involvement of Kaposi’s sarcoma is rarely encountered, especially for the Mediterranean classic subtype. Here we report a case of non-AIDS related laryngeal Kaposi’s sarcoma in a 77-year-old Tunisian man complaining of 4-month history of hoarseness and dysphagia. The patient underwent...

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Autores principales: Naimi, Zeineb, Mahjoubi, Khalil, Adouni, Olfa, Abidi, Rim, Driss, Maha, Nasr, Chiraz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33505574
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.206.26175
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author Naimi, Zeineb
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Driss, Maha
Nasr, Chiraz
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description Head and neck involvement of Kaposi’s sarcoma is rarely encountered, especially for the Mediterranean classic subtype. Here we report a case of non-AIDS related laryngeal Kaposi’s sarcoma in a 77-year-old Tunisian man complaining of 4-month history of hoarseness and dysphagia. The patient underwent exclusive local radiotherapy with a prescription dose of 45 Gy delivered in 1.8 Gy daily fractions. He remained complaint-free for 3 months.
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spelling pubmed-78136562021-01-26 Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report) Naimi, Zeineb Mahjoubi, Khalil Adouni, Olfa Abidi, Rim Driss, Maha Nasr, Chiraz Pan Afr Med J Case Report Head and neck involvement of Kaposi’s sarcoma is rarely encountered, especially for the Mediterranean classic subtype. Here we report a case of non-AIDS related laryngeal Kaposi’s sarcoma in a 77-year-old Tunisian man complaining of 4-month history of hoarseness and dysphagia. The patient underwent exclusive local radiotherapy with a prescription dose of 45 Gy delivered in 1.8 Gy daily fractions. He remained complaint-free for 3 months. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7813656/ /pubmed/33505574 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.206.26175 Text en Copyright: Zeineb Naimi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Adouni, Olfa
Abidi, Rim
Driss, Maha
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Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)
title Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)
title_full Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)
title_fullStr Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)
title_full_unstemmed Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)
title_short Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an HIV-negative patient (a case report)
title_sort kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx: an unusual location in an hiv-negative patient (a case report)
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33505574
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.206.26175
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