Septic illness and Kaposi's sarcoma.
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) usually presents with typical skin lesions. We report two cases that presented with illnesses suggesting major sepsis, but were found to have disseminated KS at postmortem with little in the way of cutaneous involvement.
Daniel
Jessica
J
Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, UK. jessica.daniel@st-marys.nhs.uk
Shaw
Andrew
A
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis*