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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Haytham Allaham, M.D. [2] Huda A. Karman, M.D.

Overview

  • Kaposi's sarcoma was first described by Dr. Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist at the University of Vienna, in the year 1872.

Historical Perspective

  • Kaposi's sarcoma was first described by Dr. Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist at the University of Vienna, in the year 1872.[1]
  • The association between AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma was made during the 1980s.
  • In 1994, the first discovery of the oncogenic Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (HHV-8) occurred following the genetic analysis of a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion by Dr. Yuan Chang, Dr. Patrick S. Moore, and Dr. Ethel Cesarman at Columbia University.

References

  1. Kaposi, M (1872). "Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut". Arch. Dermatol. Syph. 4: 265–273.


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