Kaposi's Disease
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چکیده
Three cases of this extraordinary condition recently came under observation. The affection was first described by Moriz Kaposi and given the name of xeroderma pigmentosum*. A large number of other names have been given, examples of which are atrophoderma pigmentosum (Crocker), melanosis lenticularis progressiva (Pick), and lioderma cum melanosi et telangiectasia (Neisser). Since these names are somewhat cumbersome and are not quite accurate from a descriptive standpoint, the association of Kaposi's name might well be retained, and, though the clinical features of the cases observed in patients living under tropical conditions appear to differ in important respects from those seen in Europe, Kaposi's (1895) description may with advantage be quoted :
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