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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006;132:557-558.

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Diagnosis: Kaposi sarcoma (KS) of the pinna and external auditory canal

Kaposi sarcoma was first described by Moritz Kaposi in 1872. Since then, several variants of KS, categorized according to their clinical features, have been described. Classic KS is an indolent disease that affects older men of Italian, Jewish, or Mediterranean descent. African or endemic KS is a relatively common neoplasm in equatorial Africa, with nodular, florid, infiltrative, and lymphadenopathic variants reflecting increasing clinical aggressiveness.¹ Transplant-related, or acquired, KS occurs much more frequently in patients with posttransplant immunosuppression than in the general population. AIDS-associated or epidemic KS in patients with HIV is a Centers for Disease Control–indicated AIDS-defining illness that occurs much more frequently in patients with HIV than in the population at large, making it the most common AIDS-associated malignancy.²

Kaposi sarcoma is a low-grade vascular neoplasm that is associated with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8). Human herpesvirus 8, which has been isolated from 90% to 100% of all 4 clinical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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