Spontaneously Healing Kaposi's Sarcoma in AIDS
- 20 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 312 (25) , 1638-1639
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198506203122513
Abstract
To the Editor: Spontaneous healing has been described in classic Kaposi's sarcoma and may represent up to 10 per cent of these forms.1 It has also been observed in recipients of renal allografts, the sarcoma sometimes disappearing when immunosuppression is corrected.2 However, we know of only one report of spontaneously healing Kaposi's sarcoma in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).3 We wish to report the case of spontaneously regressing Kaposi's sarcoma in a 25-year-old homosexual man who presented with a wasting syndrome and cutaneous lesions evolving in three stages. The first stage consisted of purple pustular lesions on the legs, forearms, . . .Keywords
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