Konstantinopoulos Panagiotis A, Dezube Bruce J, Pantanowitz Liron
Department of Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
BMC Clin Pathol. 2006 Oct 30;6:7. doi: 10.1186/1472-6890-6-7.
The spectrum of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) has been expanded to include pre-KS lesions.
We report, for the first time, a case providing direct histological evidence of the development of early (in-situ) KS from mediastinal lymphatic vessels in the setting of chronic lymphedema in an HIV-positive patient. Spindle-shaped and endothelial cells in these early KS-appearing lesions were immunoreactive for HHV8, D2-40 and CD34.
Our findings suggest that HHV8-infected spindle-shaped cells associated with lymphangiogenesis that evolve into KS lesions, acquire from the outset an aberrant mixed vascular and lymphatic endothelial cell phenotype.
卡波西肉瘤(KS)的范围已扩大至包括KS前期病变。
我们首次报告了1例HIV阳性患者,在慢性淋巴水肿背景下,从纵隔淋巴管发展而来的早期(原位)KS的直接组织学证据。这些早期KS样病变中的梭形细胞和内皮细胞对HHV8、D2-40和CD34呈免疫反应性。
我们的研究结果表明,感染HHV8的梭形细胞与淋巴管生成相关,演变成KS病变,从一开始就获得异常的混合血管和淋巴管内皮细胞表型。