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Metastatic Kaposi sarcoma in a non-HIV patient leading to metacarpal lysis then upper-limb amputation: a case report
Pierre-Antoine Debordes1, Ceyran Hamoudi1, Antonio Di Marco1
1Department of Orthopedics Surgery, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|September 1, 2023
Abstract:
We report the case of a HIV-seronegative 57 year-old man, with known classic Kaposi's disease and in whom a secondary localization in the upper left limb led to carpal and metacarpal lysis in the left hand. This unfavorable local evolution led to left transhumeral amputation.

