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[Classic Kaposi's sarcoma of the tongue: a case report]. 2007

Erdinç Aydin, and Volkan Akdoğan, and Beyhan Demirhan, and Levent N Ozlüoğlu

Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. erdinca@baskent-ank.edu.tr

An 81-year-old male patient presented with a painful mass in the tongue that showed a progressive growth within the past two months. Examination revealed a polypoid mass in the midline of the tongue, purple in color, and 1.5x1.5 cm in size. There was no palpable lymph node on neck examination. An excisional biopsy was performed with adequate surgical margins. The histopathological diagnosis was Kaposi's sarcoma. Clinical and radiological evaluations did not show any systemic involvement. An HIV test was negative. He was referred to the medical oncology department. No recurrence was detected during a year follow-up.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
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.	Kaposi Sarcoma,Kaposi's Sarcoma,Multiple Idiopathic Pigmented Hemangiosarcoma,Kaposis Sarcoma,Sarcoma, Kaposi's
D014062	Tongue Neoplasms	Tumors or cancer of the TONGUE.	Cancer of Tongue,Tongue Cancer,Cancer of the Tongue,Neoplasms, Tongue,Cancer, Tongue,Cancers, Tongue,Neoplasm, Tongue,Tongue Cancers,Tongue Neoplasm