title: [5 cases report of Kaposi's sarcoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To aid clinical diagnosis and management of Kaposi's sarcoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  3 male and 2 female of classical Kaposi's sarcoma were analysed by clinical and pathological examinations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All the patients presented hemorrhagic or flue plagues nodules that could be fused together or ulceration. The lesions could reappear and get relived by themselves, The retroperitoneal lymphnodes was involved in one case, together with hypoxemia, oral ulceration, conjunctivitis and keratitis. The tumor behaved intensive spindle-cell sarcoma with obvious karyokinesis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The affected organ in classical kaposi's sarcoma were mainly skin, rarely internal organs. The diagnosis were verified on pathology and the treatment could rely on radiotherapy, chemotherapy and local resection.
authors.affiliation: PUMC Hospital, CAMS and PUMC, Beijing 100730.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lan
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005121:Extremities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012086:Reoperation; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy