Kaposi's sarcoma: An interesting case report in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an angioproliferative neoplasm that affects skin and other organs. It is one of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining conditions, which tends to occur at low CD4 count. It is the most common neoplasm among patients with AIDS in the Western population....

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Autores principales: Reddy, Harshitha K., Raju, Belliappa P., Methre, Vishal, Samagani, Akshay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9890996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743084
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_11_21
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author Reddy, Harshitha K.
Raju, Belliappa P.
Methre, Vishal
Samagani, Akshay
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description Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an angioproliferative neoplasm that affects skin and other organs. It is one of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining conditions, which tends to occur at low CD4 count. It is the most common neoplasm among patients with AIDS in the Western population. It is rarely reported from India. We report the case of a 38-year-old human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male, with an unusual presentation of KS.
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spelling pubmed-98909962023-02-02 Kaposi's sarcoma: An interesting case report in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male Reddy, Harshitha K. Raju, Belliappa P. Methre, Vishal Samagani, Akshay Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Reports Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an angioproliferative neoplasm that affects skin and other organs. It is one of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining conditions, which tends to occur at low CD4 count. It is the most common neoplasm among patients with AIDS in the Western population. It is rarely reported from India. We report the case of a 38-year-old human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male, with an unusual presentation of KS. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9890996/ /pubmed/36743084 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_11_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kaposi's sarcoma: An interesting case report in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male
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title_fullStr Kaposi's sarcoma: An interesting case report in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male
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title_short Kaposi's sarcoma: An interesting case report in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive heterosexual male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9890996/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_11_21
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