Dermatologic Manifestations of Kaposi Sarcoma Differential Diagnoses

  • Author: Robert A Schwartz, MD, MPH; Chief Editor: Dirk M Elston, MD   more...
 
Updated: Feb 22, 2012
 
 

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Robert A Schwartz, MD, MPH  Professor and Head, Dermatology, Professor of Pathology, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School

Robert A Schwartz, MD, MPH is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Dermatology, American College of Physicians, and Sigma Xi

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W Clark Lambert, MD, PhD  Professor and Head, Dermatopathology, Departments of Pathology and Dermatology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

W Clark Lambert, MD, PhD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology, American College of Physicians, American Dermatological Association, American Society of Dermatopathology, International Academy of Pathology, Medical Society of New Jersey, Sigma Xi, and Society for Investigative Dermatology

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Specialty Editor Board

Abby S Van Voorhees, MD  Assistant Professor, Director of Psoriasis Services and Phototherapy Units, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Abby S Van Voorhees, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology, American Medical Association, National Psoriasis Foundation, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Women's Dermatologic Society

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Michael J Wells, MD  Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L Foster School of Medicine

Michael J Wells, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Dermatology, American Medical Association, and Texas Medical Association

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Christen M Mowad, MD  Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Geisinger Medical Center

Christen M Mowad, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Dermatology, and Phi Beta Kappa

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Joel M Gelfand, MD, MSCE  Medical Director, Clinical Studies Unit, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Associate Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

Joel M Gelfand, MD, MSCE is a member of the following medical societies: Society for Investigative Dermatology

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Dirk M Elston, MD  Director, Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, New York

Dirk M Elston, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology

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Elderly American man of Armenian origin with characteristic violaceous plaques of the legs, a good example of classic Kaposi sarcoma.
Man who is homosexual and has HIV infection and Kaposi sarcoma.
Man who is homosexual and has HIV infection and Kaposi sarcoma.
Man who is homosexual and has HIV infection and Kaposi sarcoma.
Elderly man of Mediterranean lineage with hyperkeratotic nodule of Kaposi sarcoma on sole of foot.
Man who is homosexual and has HIV infection and Kaposi sarcoma.
Man who is homosexual and has HIV infection and Kaposi sarcoma.
Man who is homosexual and has HIV infection and Kaposi sarcoma.
A 35-year-old man with dome-shaped locally aggressive tumors, an example of exophytic Kaposi sarcoma with cavernous hemangiomalike histology.
Ecchymotic Kaposi sarcoma in a man who is homosexual.
Intermediate lesion showing moderately enlarged spindle cells, some of which line poorly formed blood vessels that open into the interstitium with extravasation of erythrocytes. Erythrophagocytosis by these spindle cells is noted in places (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification X80).
Early lesion showing increased cellularity of the dermis with slightly enlarged spindle cells of focally fine stellate blood vessels that open at their corners into the interstitium (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification X40).
Keloidal Kaposi sarcoma demonstrating features both of keloids and Kaposi sarcoma (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification X80).
Oral Kaposi sarcoma.
Kaposi sarcoma of the leg.
Late lesion showing masses of moderately atypical spindle cells in a haphazard array, some of which line poorly formed blood vessels. Many of the spindle cells show erythrophagocytosis (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification X40).
Late lesion showing atypical spindle cells, some of which are lining poorly formed blood vessels, with prominent erythrophagocytosis by the cells (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification X80).
 
 
 
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