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- Title
Recommendations for Counseling and Education of Service Members on Endemic African Cutaneous Kaposi Sarcoma: A Case Study.
- Authors
McTighe, Shane; Rivard, Shayna; Letizia, Andrew; Logemann, Nicholas; Sulit, Daryl; Marquart, Jason
- Abstract
We report a case of Endemic African Cutaneous Kaposi Sarcoma (EACKS) on the lower extremity of an immunocompetent 31-yr-old male service member from Cameroon. Diagnosis was made using clinical and histologic findings. The service member was treated with local radiation therapy with resolution of his tumor.The goal of this article is to educate practitioners to counsel susceptible service members and leadership on the risk of developing EACKS when traveling to Sub-Saharan Africa, monitor for disease development, and guide in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with this rare disease.
- Subjects
CAMEROON; KAPOSI'S sarcoma; IMMUNOCOMPETENT cells; RARE diseases; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMOR diagnosis; HEALTH education standards; COUNSELING; HEALTH education; SKIN; SKIN tumors; MILITARY personnel; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2018, Vol 183, Issue 7/8, pe334
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/milmed/usx218