Spontaneous Regression of Kaposi's Sarcoma in Patients with AIDS

Abstract

To the Editor: Janier et al. (June 20 issue)¹ described a patient with Kaposi's sarcoma related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and opportunistic infections, whose tumor underwent spontaneous regression although his clinical status deteriorated.We wish to report our observations of spontaneous regression of the lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with AIDS. Of 159 patients with AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma who were referred to us for treatment between April 1981 and June 1985, 6 had spontaneous regression of cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma lesions (3.8 per cent). In one of the patients, the development of the sarcoma coincided with administration . . .