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It is a tumor characterized by endothelial, perithelial and fibroblastic differentiation. It is very rare in our regions, not so in central Africa where its clinical features and course are sui generis. It nearly exclusively occurs in the male sex and during adult-advanced age
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Campanacci, M., Bertoni, F., Bacchini, P. (1990). Kaposi’s Sarcoma. In: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-29279-2_78
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