Kaposi's sarcoma with ocular manifestations.

KAPosI's sarcoma is rarely mentioned among the skin lesions of the eyelids, most of the literature being devoted to the visceral lesions, the connexion with endotheliomata, the very much debated pathogenesis, and the treatment. The condition was first described in Kaposi (1872) as "sarcoma idiopathicum pigmentosum" and later as "sarcoma idiopathicum hemorrhagicum". The histology is so varied that the condition was given different names by many of those who studied it. In Turkey the first case was reported by Sigindim (1947), followed by Kinacigil (1948), Abaoglu (1954), and Egeli and Yal9in (1958). Ocular lesions were described by Graham (1942) and Sacks (1956), who each reported one case.