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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005 20(12):2830-2831; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi161
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© The Author [2005]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Case Report

Unusual Kaposi's sarcoma in a renal transplant recipient

Pedro Costa Ferreira1, José Miguel Pereira2, Isabel Oliveira1, Carlos Pinho1, Augusta Cardoso1, Jorge Reis1 and José Amarante1

1 Department of Plastic Reconstructive, Aesthetic, and Maxillofacial Surgery and 2 Department of Radiology Hospital de São João, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Pedro Manuel Costa Ferreira, Lugar de Vila-Chã/Carvalhal, 4755-106 Barcelos, Portugal. Email: pedro.oferreira@mail.pt

Keywords: Kaposi's sarcoma; renal transplant recipients

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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) was first described as an ‘idiopathic multiple pigmented sarcoma of the skin’ by Moritz Kaposi in 1872 [1]. Skin lesions have a dark blue or purplish colour on white skin and often appear pigmented on black skin. Initially, they may be macular and may coalesce to form large plaques. Subsequently, they become infiltrating and may form nodular and fungiform tumours. We present an unusual large . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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