kaposi's sarcoma in English

noun
1
a form of cancer involving multiple tumors of the lymph nodes or skin, occurring chiefly in people with depressed immune systems, e.g., as a result of AIDS.
The differential diagnoses include dermatofibroma, keloid, Kaposi's sarcoma and metastatic carcinoma.

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1. And Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus gives a nice signature down here.

2. Surely afterwords cases of a very rare cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma were diagnosed in young gay men.

3. Are there OTHER USES for this medicine? Bleomycin is also sometimes used to treat Kaposi's sarcoma related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

4. In about 30% of all patients with Aids, a Kaposi's sarcoma is diagnosed.The angiomatous character may lead to the histopathological diagnosis of a haemangioma.Human herpes virus 8 is known to be the transforming element.

5. Aids definition, a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or