International Journal of Medical Sciences (Jan 2011)

Large Mass Arising From the Tongue as an Initially and Sole Manifestation of Kaposi Sarcoma

  • Amir Feily, Esmaeil Rafeie, Zahra Moosavi, Ahmad Khazanee, Nastaran Ranjbari, Kambiz Masoumi, Omid Ghasemzadeh, Mosleh Safarpoor

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 8
pp. 709 – 710

Abstract

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We report a 30- year-old Iranian woman presenting with a red to yellowish, well demarcated, painless exophytic and lobulated mass originating from the right hand side of the tongue. An excisional biopsy was obtained and it was diagnosed histopathologically as Kaposi's sarcoma by detecting atypical spindle cells with rare mitoses delineating blood-filled vascular slits.