[Pseudo-angiosarcomatosis (kaposi) and arterio-venous fistulae (author's transl)]

In a few cases, arterio-venous fistulae of the lower limbs lead to cutaneous symptoms of the toes, feet or legs exactly similar to Kaposi's disease; the fairly precocious occurrence, the unilateral localisation, the existence of clinical and radiological arterial symptoms and usually, but not always, particular histological features allow this discrimination. Seen in both sex, male prevailing, between 12 and 50, it can simulate Kaposi's disease even on histological grounds; the diagnosis may, then, be difficult inasmuch as vascular symptoms may clinically lack. The development may be very different from one case to another so that there is no standard treatment between "wait and see" and more or less extensive amputation.