title: Kaposi's sarcoma: a reversible hyperplasia.
abstract: Kaposi's sarcoma has many unusual features: for example, the pronounced male preponderance; its appearance in "crops" rather than as primary tumour with metastases; a substantial rate of spontaneous remission; the predictability of involved sites; the lack of aneuploidy; and the strong association with immunodeficiency. These features and other evidence suggest that it is not a malignant neoplasm but a benign, potentially controllable and reversible hyperplasia.
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008297:Male; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology