Ultrasound findings in Kaposi sarcoma patients: overlapping sonographic features with disseminated tuberculosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Focused Assessment with Sonography for HIV-associated TB (FASH) is a diagnostic tool for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in symptomatic patients with advanced HIV. As Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is also prevalent in this patient population, changes due to KS may mimic TB findings and clinical interpretation of target FASH findings can be challenging. We aimed to describe sonographic findings in patients with KS.

Methods

We performed a prospective observational study at Lighthouse clinic at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, in consecutive patients with newly diagnosed KS, without known diagnosis of TB, referred for paclitaxel treatment. All patients underwent FASH and abdominal ultrasound to assess for effusions and changes in liver and spleen, as well as syst

SUBMITTER: Huson MAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10232376 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature