Kaposi's sarcoma history and symptoms
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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Overview
Symptoms
Usual symptoms include skin and internal organs.
- Lesions in skin: The lesions can develop anywhere on the body, but most often on the legs, nose, the feet. Typical lesions begin as flat or slightly raised pink or red spots. With the developement of the disease, the colour of the lesions may be change into blue, purple, or brown.
- Lesions in mouth and throat: The disease may cause sore, ooze, bleed, or swallow and breath problems in mouth and throat.
- Lesions in gastrointestinal tract: The sarcoma may cause bleeding, anemia, abdominal pain and discomfort, even bowel obstruction.
- Lesions in lung: When Kaposi's sarcoma in lung, it can make coughing, bloody sputum, shortness of breath, and fever.
Other health problems may also cause these symptoms. Only a doctor can tell for sure. A person with any of these symptoms should tell the doctor so that the problems can be diagnosed and treated as early as possible.