title: Upper airway obstruction in a woman with AIDS-related laryngeal Kaposi's sarcoma.
abstract: Kaposi's sarcoma rarely causes upper airway obstruction. In the only two previously reported cases, both patients were men who died of hemorrhage shortly after tracheostomy. We describe a 45-year-old woman with AIDS who presented with stridor secondary to Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this presentation in a woman and the first reported patient with Kaposi's sarcoma to survive tracheostomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Beitler
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ptaszynski
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Karpel
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology