title: Large mass arising from the tongue as an initially and sole manifestation of Kaposi sarcoma.
abstract: We report a 30- year-old Iranian woman presenting with a red to yellowish, well demarcated, painless exophytic and lobulated mass originating from the right hand side of the tongue. An excisional biopsy was obtained and it was diagnosed histopathologically as Kaposi's sarcoma by detecting atypical spindle cells with rare mitoses delineating blood-filled vascular slits.
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feily
authors.forename: Esmaeil
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rafeie
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Moosavi
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khazanee
authors.forename: Nastaran
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ranjbari
authors.forename: Kambiz
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Masoumi
authors.forename: Omid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ghasemzadeh
authors.forename: Mosleh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Safarpoor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000473:pathology*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*