Spontaneously Healing Kaposi's Sarcoma in AIDS

Abstract

To the Editor: Spontaneous healing has been described in classic Kaposi's sarcoma and may represent up to 10 per cent of these forms.¹ It has also been observed in recipients of renal allografts, the sarcoma sometimes disappearing when immunosuppression is corrected.² However, we know of only one report of spontaneously healing Kaposi's sarcoma in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).³ We wish to report the case of spontaneously regressing Kaposi's sarcoma in a 25-year-old homosexual man who presented with a wasting syndrome and cutaneous lesions evolving in three stages. The first stage consisted of purple pustular lesions on the legs, forearms, . . .