Koebnerizing Kaposi's sarcoma mimics a l
Koebnerizing Kaposi's sarcoma mimics a laparotomic hypertrophic scar in a liver transplant recipient
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Pierre Emmanuel Stoebner; CΓ©cile Fabre; Nelly EL Kabbaj; Michael Bismuth; George
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a low-grade vascular neoplasm associated with human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) infection that develops in 0.1% to 5% of transplant recipients. 1 A recent multicenter Italian survey showed an approximately 100 times greater risk for KS in organ transplant recipients versus the gen