When you and that man get off at the bus stop, he turns to you and says, "Ah, you must be a student doctor. What do you think I got?"Challenge: What's the cause of the skin lesion? What else does this person have?
Related Questions:
1. What is the skin lesion called?
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Kaposi's sarcoma- cancer of the lymphatic epithelium
associated with HIV and HHV-8 infection
Muni
The skin lesion is Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by human herpesvirus 8. The lesions are papular nodules or blotches, a tumor arising from lymphatic endothelial cells. The lesion is highly vascular and on histology, spindle cells are appreciated. In the 1980s, especially in San Francisco, an epidemic of Kaposi's sarcoma was related to HIV infection and AIDS.
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