https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2017.2.164

Kaposi’s sarcoma: An unusual penile lesion in a HIV negative patient

Vol. 89 No. 2 (2017)
Submitted: January 17, 2017
Accepted: March 1, 2017
Published: June 30, 2017
Kaposi sarcoma, Penile lesion, HIV negative, HHV-8, T-cell lymphoma
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Aldo Franco De Rose
Department of Urology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico per l’Oncologia, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.
Matteo Justich
Department of Urology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico per l’Oncologia, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.
Guglielmo Mantica
guglielmo.mantica@gmail.com
Department of Urology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico per l’Oncologia, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.
Nicolò Testino
Department of Urology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico per l’Oncologia, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.
Carlo Terrone
Department of Urology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico per l’Oncologia, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) of the penis is a very rare lesion and it is usually observed in HIV-infected patients. We introduce a case of KS of the penis in a 75 years old HIV negative patient with a peripheral T-cell lymphoma. He came to our attention with a painful ulcerated red lesion on the glans that stretched from the urethral meatus to the coronal skin. This lesion was found to be a KS balanopreputial in the classical variant. Penile KS must be included in the differential diagnosis of genital diseases especially when the clinical features of the lesion are aspecific and diagnosis can be made histologically by performing a biopsy.

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De Rose, A. F., Justich, M., Mantica, G., Testino, N., & Terrone, C. (2017). Kaposi’s sarcoma: An unusual penile lesion in a HIV negative patient. Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 89(2), 164–165. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2017.2.164

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