An atypical aggressive Kaposi's sarcoma in a HIV-negative bisexual man
West Indian med. j
; 50(1): 75-7, Mar. 2001. ilus
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in English
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ABSTRACT
We describe a case of Kaposi's sarcoma in a previously healthy 35-year-old bisexual West Indian man of African descent who was seronegative for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1) and who presented with extensive mucocutaneous lesions, weight loss, visceral and generalized lymph node involvement, poor response to combination therapy with vinblastine and inter feron alfa-2a and a short survival of eight months from onset of illness. This is the first document case of Kaposi's sarcoma in Domonica. The presentation is unusal in that it is similar to the aggressive and disseminated Kaposi's sarcoma seen only in AIDS and florid variant of the endemic disease in young men in Equatorial Africa. (AU)
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International databases
Database:
MedCarib
Main subject:
Sarcoma, Kaposi
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Skin Neoplasms
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HIV Seronegativity
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
West Indian med. j
Year:
2001
Document type:
Article