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Published on: August 25, 2017
Isolated Kaposi sarcoma of the finger pulp in an AIDS patient
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris cedex 12, France. florenceaim@gmail.com
Abstract:
A 63-year-old woman with long-standing AIDS and previous Kaposi sarcomas of the lower limb presented to our consultation complaining of a painful left ring finger with pulp enlargement. X-rays revealed an osteolytic lesion of the distal phalanx. We suspected an isolated osseous Kaposi sarcoma and at surgery we found a hemorrhagic lesion with bone extension into the phalanx. Bone involvement is rare in Kaposi sarcoma and even rarer in patients without a cutaneous location.
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