Diagnosis: Coexistent Cryptococcus neoformans and Kaposi sarcoma in a patient with AIDS. Histopathologic examination revealed multiple budding yeast forms surrounded bya clear halo (Figure 1A). Grocott-methaminesilver and mucicarmine (Figure 1B) stains highlighted these organisms and their capsules, respectively. A proliferation of atypical spindle cells arranged in fascicles, associated with s...

t was the unusual appearance of Kaposi sarcoma in the skin of young homosexual males and the coexistence of pneumocystis pneumonia that led to the description of AIDS in the early 1980s. Since then protean manifestations of cutaneous disease are recognised. The presence of skin disease can sometimes be the first indicator of HIV infection. Furthermore, the appearance of some cutaneous infection...