Familial occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma. Report of two brothers
Friedman-Birnbaum, R.; Abraham, Z.
Tumori 69(4): 365-367
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8916 PMID: 6623662 Document Number: 217706
The racial and geographical distribution of Kaposi's sarcoma is well recognized. Therefore, a hereditary factor is suspected to play a role in it's etiology. Inspite of this, only about 15 instances of familial cases with the disease have been as yet reported in the literature. We describe here an additional instance of Kaposi's sarcoma occurring in two Jewish brothers born in Rumania and we resume the literature on previous reports of familial occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma.