Kaposi's sarcoma of the conjunctiva leads to a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [3]

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 411-413

  Schmid, Katharina ^a   Wild, Thomas ^a   Bolz, Matthias ^a   Horvat, Reinhard ^a   Jurecka, Wolfgang ^a   Zehetmayer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD34; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, KAPOSI;

EID: 0043173664     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00105.x     Document Type: Letter

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