{"title":"Disseminated oral Kaposi sarcoma lesion with extensive visceral involvement","authors":"Kishore Shetty","doi":"10.1016/j.ooe.2005.08.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) has been considered the most common malignancy associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection because of its propensity to develop in such individuals.This article, reports an unusual presentation of a disseminated oral KS lesion with extensive visceral involvement in an otherwise healthy young African-American male leading to a positive diagnosis of HIV.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100990,"journal":{"name":"Oral Oncology Extra","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 18-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ooe.2005.08.003","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Oral Oncology Extra","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1741940905000713","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) has been considered the most common malignancy associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection because of its propensity to develop in such individuals.This article, reports an unusual presentation of a disseminated oral KS lesion with extensive visceral involvement in an otherwise healthy young African-American male leading to a positive diagnosis of HIV.