       Document 0404
 DOCN  M9640404
 TI    Moritz Kaposi: idiopathic pigmented sarcoma of the skin.
 DT    9604
 AU    Sternbach G; Varon J; Emergency Medicine Service, Stanford University
       Medical Center,; California, USA.
 SO    J Emerg Med. 1995 Sep-Oct;13(5):671-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96079189
 AB    Moritz Kaposi first published a description of the entity that bears his
       name in 1872, calling it idiopathic multiple pigmented sarcoma of the
       skin. For many years thereafter, Kaposi's sarcoma was considered to be a
       relatively rare, slow-growing malignancy, most commonly seen in
       middle-aged and elderly men. This changed in 1981, with Alvin
       Friedman-Kein's report of what eventually proved to be HIV-associated
       (epidemic) Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma is now one of the
       diagnostic markers of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, as well as
       the most common neoplastic complication of that disease. HIV-associated
       Kaposi's sarcoma tends to disseminate widely to mucous membranes and the
       viscera. Almost all of the cases reported in the United States have
       occurred in homosexual and bisexual men, and a number of hypotheses have
       been suggested to explain this association. Over the past several years,
       however, the incidence of HIV-associated Kaposi's sarcoma has declined,
       and the reasons for this are also uncertain.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/COMPLICATIONS  Dermatology/*HISTORY
       Eponyms  History of Medicine, 19th Cent.  History of Medicine, 20th
       Cent.  Human  Male  Sarcoma, Kaposi's/*HISTORY/PATHOLOGY  HISTORICAL
       ARTICLE  HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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