title: Septic illness and Kaposi's sarcoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, UK. jessica.daniel@st-marys.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: 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*