KAPOSIS-SARCOMA AND LYMPHOMA - REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Authors
MSEDDI S FRIKHA M ELLOUMI M KHANFIR A BOUAZIZ M DAOUD J JLIDI R BELHADJ Z SOUISSI T
Citation
S. Mseddi et al., KAPOSIS-SARCOMA AND LYMPHOMA - REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris, 73(31-32), 1997, pp. 1012-1014
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris → ACNP
ISSN journal
00371777
Volume
73
Issue
31-32
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1012 - 1014
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-1777(1997)73:31-32<1012:KAL-RO>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A 23-year-old woman was diagnosed with cutaneous and gingival Kaposi's sarcoma and low-grade lymphoma. Few cases of this rare association ha ve been reported, Pathogenic hypotheses have been put forward that inv olve genetic susceptibility, oncogenic viruses, immunodepression, and local interactions between tumor clones, but none has been confirmed t o date, In our patient, development of Kaposi's sarcoma may have been secondary to immune defense impairment due to the lymphoma.