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Kaposi sarcoma of th e penis in anHIV-negative patient

2019; Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.31744/einstein_journal/2019rc4504

ISSN

2317-6385

Autores

José Francisco Aguilar Guevara, Seila Lacarra Fernández, Oliver Rojas Claros, Pedro Giral Villalta, J.L. Cebrián Lostal, Miguel Angel Resano Abarzuza,

Tópico(s)

CNS Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment

Resumo

Kaposi sarcoma is an angioproliferative disorder that ranges from a single indolent skin lesion to respiratory and gastrointestinal/visceral involvement. Kaposi sarcoma is rare in non-immunosuppressed patients. Nineteen cases of penile Kaposi sarcoma in HIV-negative patients were reported in 2012. We present the case report of a 48-year-old male patient with no previous medical history, who came to our urology clinic presenting a purple-color papule on the penis glans. Lab tests revealed negative serology for HIV, but tissue PCR was [...]

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