Classic Kaposi's sarcoma in the Inuit of northern Quebec - 21/08/11
, A. Kevin Watters, MD b, Alain Brassard, MD a
Reprint requests: Nathan Rosen, MD, Division of Dermatology, McGill University Health Center, Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Ave W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1, Canada.Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Abstract |
Background |
Classic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is predominantly a disease of eastern Mediterranean and Ashkenazi Jewish elderly men. Nevertheless, the disease has been reported to occur in people from various other ethnic and regional backgrounds.
Objective |
We report, for the first time, the occurrence of classic KS in five Inuit people living in northern Quebec, Canada.
Methods and results |
We describe the case of a 69-year-old Inuit man with classic KS, and report four other cases of KS in the Inuit population, identified by a review of our hospital's dermatopathology records.
Conclusion |
The discovery of classic KS in the Inuit population of northern Quebec brings with it new questions as to the origins of the KS-associated herpes virus in this population. It is our belief that the answers to these questions are in the genotype of the virus that is present in this community.
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| This supplement is made possible through the generous support of Stiefel Laboratories for the American Academy of Dermatology. Funding sources: None. Conflicts of interest: None identified. Presented in part at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 2003; and the Canadian Dermatology Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 2003. |
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