KAPOSIS-SARCOMA IN A MOTHER AND HER DAUGH TER

Two patients with typical efflorescence of Kaposi's sarcoma, a mother aged 39 and her daughter aged 17, are described. The mother developed the disease 10 years before and it ran an uneventful course, with a dr astic deterioration in recent years. The daughter fell ill at the age of 15. Specific features of these two cases were as follows: familial involvement of females, onset at a young age, grave outcome in the mot her because of an unqualified therapeutic intervention.