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Koebnerizing Kaposi's sarcoma mimics a laparotomic hypertrophic scar in a liver transplant recipient

✍ Scribed by Pierre Emmanuel Stoebner; Cécile Fabre; Nelly EL Kabbaj; Michael Bismuth; Georges Philippe Pageaux; Laurent Meunier

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
210 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis

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 general population, especially during the first 2 years after transplantation. 2,3 We report here an atypical clinical presentation of KS arising in a liver transplant recipient 8 weeks after transplantation and mimicking a benign laparotomic hypertrophic scar.

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