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Report of a Case

RICHARD D. BRUNNING, MD; JOHN F. FOLEY, MD; I. E. FORTUNY, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1963;112(3):363-369.

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The coexistence of Hodgkin's disease and Kaposi's sarcoma is uncommon. Of the 1,200 reported cases of Kaposi's sarcoma, nine have had the coexistence of Hodgkin's disease. The incidence of Hodgkin's disease in patients with Kaposi's sarcoma is therefore slightly less than 1%. This is considerably greater than the incidence of Hodgkin's disease in the general population, which is 0.002%.1¹

The first case report of a coincident Kaposi's sarcoma and Hodgkin's disease was that of Osborne et al in 1947.² The diagnosis of both diseases was substantiated by histologic studies. In 1949, Greenstein and Consten reported a patient who showed evidence of both diseases at postmortem examination.³ In 1950, McCarthy and Pack's large series of cases of Kaposi's sarcoma included a patient who also had Hodgkin's disease.⁴ Epstein, in 1957, presented the autopsy findings of a patient who had both diseases at the time of death.⁵ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS

Medical Fellow in Pathology (Dr. Brunning); Research Fellow in Internal Medicine, Special Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute, United States Public Health Service (Dr. Foley); Medical Fellow in Internal Medicine (Dr. Fortuny).; From the departments of pathology and internal medicine, University of Minnesota Medical Center.

Footnotes
Received for publication Feb 4, 1963; accepted March 26.

This study was supported in part from a research grant (CYP-5862) from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, and from the American Cancer Society.

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