Kaposi's sarcoma historical perspective
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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]
Overview
- Kaposi's sarcoma was first described by Dr. Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist at the University of Vienna, in the year 1872.[1][2]
Historical Perspective
- Kaposi's sarcoma was first described by Dr. Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist at the University of Vienna, in the year 1872.Invalid
<ref>tag; name cannot be a simple integer. Use a descriptive title[2] - 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
- ↑ Kaposi, M (1872). "Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut". Arch. Dermatol. Syph. 4: 265–273.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kaposi's sarcoma. Wikipedia (2015) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi's_sarcoma Accessed on January, 17 2015