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(Chest. 1996;109:836-837.)
© 1996 American College of Chest Physicians

Upper Airway Obstruction in a Woman With AIDS-Related Laryngeal Kaposi's Sarcoma

Allison J. Beitler MD1; Konrad Ptaszynski MD2; and Jill P. Karpel MD, FCCP3

1 From the Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
2 From the Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
3 From the Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

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.

Key Words: AIDS • Kaposi's sarcoma • upper airway obstruction




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