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Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales
February 1985
The association of Kaposi angiosarcomatosis and an auto-immune haemolytic anaemia is reported in a 69-year-old woman. The direct Coombs test was "igG complement" type positive. This is the 5th reported case and the 2nd in which haemolysis developed during an acute malignant exacerbation of the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case involves a 28-year-old man suffering from severe circulatory failure with blue and cold limbs resulting from childhood polio and showing circumscribed plaques of angio-dermatitis (Favre and Chaix) with a tumor-like appearance resembling Kaposi's angiosarcomatosis. These facts described by Mali in circulatory ailments, especially following phlebitis, should be known to phlebologists. They differ from Kaposi-like disease by the much rarer arterio-venous fistula (described by Bluefarb and Stewart).
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