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Bobby S Korn1, D J John Park, Don O Kikkawa
1Division of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0946, USA. bkorn@ucsd.edu
Abstract:
A 38-year-old human immunodeficiency virus-positive man presented with a progressively enlarging pigmented lesion in the right inferior fornix of the eye. A biopsy was performed of this lesion, which revealed Kaposi sarcoma. Intralesional mitomycin-C was delivered to the lesion, resulting in complete resolution of the sarcoma. At 36 months of follow-up, there is no evidence of recurrence. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of successful treatment of conjunctival Kaposi sarcoma with intralesional mitomycin-C.