Kaposi's sarcoma in a child with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
BACKGROUND
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is rare in childhood. It may be favored by acquired immune deficiencies, but the predisposing factors to KS in other children are unclear.


CONCLUSIONS
KS has been reported in only two children and one adult with primary immunodeficiency. We report here a Tunisian child with a Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome who developed KS at the age of 14 months.


CONCLUSIONS
This observation expands the spectrum of primary immunodeficiencies associated with KS in childhood.
Picard
Capucine
C
Unité d'Immunologie et d'Hématologie Pédiatriques AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015, Paris, EU, France. picardc@necker.fr
Mellouli
Fethi
F
Duprez
Renan
R
Chédeville
Gaëlle
G
Neven
Bénédicte
B
Fraitag
Sylvie
S
Delaunay
Jean
J
Le Deist
Françoise
F
Fischer
Alain
A
Blanche
Stéphane
S
Bodemer
Christine
C
Gessain
Antoine
A
Casanova
Jean-Laurent
JL
Bejaoui
Mohamed
M
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy; D014923:Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy