Abstract

ROIZ BALAGUER, Máximo  and  MORALES BARRABIA, Ileana. Kaposi´s sarcoma: classification and evaluation in Zimbabwe . Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2010, vol.9, n.2, pp.230-237. ISSN 1729-519X.

A prospective and longitudinal study was done among the patients diagnosed of suffering Kaposi´s Sarcoma (KS). They were treated in specialized consultation for this disease in Parirenyatwa Hospital of Harare, Zimbabwe between 2005 and 2006. To whom were collected different variables such as age, sex, skin biopsy result, HIV test, time of detection and stages of this disease. Finding that sex more affected was masculine with 63,5% of patients, 87,9% of patients had a time of detection were less than 16 months, 93% of patients were found between 3 and 4 stage of this disease, 95,3% were classified as epidemic KS and 2,6% endemic KS, ratio male-female was 8:1 in endemic KS and 77,17% of patients with epidemic KS were between 25 and 44 years and 59% of endemic KS were more then 55 years.

Keywords : Kaposi´s Sarcoma; endemic; epidemic stages time of detection.

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