Diagnosis

HIV Cutaneous Infection Mimics Kaposi's Sarcoma in Some AIDS Patients

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 4th, 1995

Doctors shouldn't be too quick to diagnose Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in their AIDS patients who present with the purplish skin lesions typical of the rare cancer associated with HIV, according to a recent review of opportunistic skin infections among people with AIDS.

Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) presents most commonly as a cutaneous disease and can mimic nodular Kaposi's sarcoma in appearance. For this reason, researchers advise, doctors would be wise to biopsy the lesion before concluding prematurely that the patient has KS.

The good news: it usually can be treated successfully. Although the vast majority of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected...

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