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Revision as of 03:31, 24 August 2015
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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Symptoms
Usual symptoms include skin and internal organs.
- Lesions in skin: The lesions can develop anywhere on the body, but most often on the legs, nose, the feet. Typical lesions begin as flat or slightly raised pink or red spots. With the development of the disease, the color of the lesions may be change into blue, purple, or brown.
- Lesions in mouth and throat: The disease may cause sore, ooze, bleed, or swallow and breath problems in mouth and throat.
- Lesions in gastrointestinal tract: The sarcoma may cause bleeding, anemia, abdominal pain and discomfort, even bowel obstruction.
- Lesions in lung: When Kaposi's sarcoma in lung, it can make coughing, bloody sputum, shortness of breath, and fever.
Other health problems may also cause these symptoms.