Upper airway obstruction in a woman with AIDS-related laryngeal Kaposi's sarcoma.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Kaposi's sarcoma rarely causes upper airway obstruction. In the only two previously reported cases, both patients were men who died of hemorrhage shortly after tracheostomy. We describe a 45-year-old woman with AIDS who presented with stridor secondary to Kaposi's sarcoma of the larynx. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this presentation in a woman and the first reported patient with Kaposi's sarcoma to survive tracheostomy.
Medical subject headings
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Airway Obstruction
- Laryngeal Neoplasms
- Sarcoma, Kaposi