José Barquero-Romero, and
Juan Carlos Bureo Dacl, and
Paloma Martín Cordero, and
Juan Pimentel Leo
Servicios de Medicina Interna. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Badajoz. Servicio Extremeño de Salud. Badajoz. España.
UI
MeSH Term
Description
Entries
D008297
Male
Males
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000369
Aged, 80 and over
Persons 80 years of age and older.
Oldest Old
D012514
Sarcoma, Kaposi
A multicentric, malignant neoplastic vascular proliferation characterized by the development of bluish-red cutaneous nodules, usually on the lower extremities, most often on the toes or feet, and slowly increasing in size and number and spreading to more proximal areas. The tumors have endothelium-lined channels and vascular spaces admixed with variably sized aggregates of spindle-shaped cells, and often remain confined to the skin and subcutaneous tissue, but widespread visceral involvement may occur. Kaposi's sarcoma occurs spontaneously in Jewish and Italian males in Europe and the United States. An aggressive variant in young children is endemic in some areas of Africa. A third form occurs in about 0.04% of kidney transplant patients. There is also a high incidence in AIDS patients. (From Dorland, 27th ed & Holland et al., Cancer Medicine, 3d ed, pp2105-7) HHV-8 is the suspected cause.
April 2007,
Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico,
José Barquero-Romero, and
Juan Carlos Bureo Dacl, and
Paloma Martín Cordero, and
Juan Pimentel Leo