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MEDISAN
On-line version ISSN 1029-3019
Abstract
ELERS BANDERA, Melba. Kaposi sarcoma in a female patient from São Tomé and Príncipe. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.10, pp.7038-7042. ISSN 1029-3019.
The case report of a patient who was attended in "Dr. Ayres Menezes" General Hospital from the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe is presented because of fever and skin lesions, to whom Kaposi sarcoma was diagnosed associated with infection due to the human immunological deficiency/aids virus. The torpid clinical course and the so advanced stage of the disease, as well as the resistance to the antiretroviral drugs, caused the death of the patient
Keywords : Kaposi sarcoma; antiretroviral drugs; human immunological deficiency virus/aids; human herpesvirus type 8.