Professor Kaposi's original concepts of Kaposi's sarcoma.
Kaposi's sarcoma has been identified since 1981 as one of the original disorders that defined AIDS and the AIDS epidemic. The authors provide biographical information about Kaposi, followed by a new English translation of a description by Kaposi in German of the sarcoma that bears his name.
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Division of Surgical Oncology, UMD-New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103-2714, USA.
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