Braun-Falco O, Schmoeckel C, Hübner G. [The histogenesis of Kaposi sarcoma: a histochemical and electronmicroscopical study (author's transl)].
VIRCHOWS ARCHIV. A, PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY 1976;
369:215-27. [PMID:
816059 DOI:
10.1007/bf00427710]
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Abstract
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1. Histologically, Morbus Kaposi is primarily characterized by a proliferation of streams composed of spindle-shaped cells, by vascular slits lined by cells, and by a minor cellular inflammatory reaction. 2. The cells lining the vascular slits resemble endothelial cells and exhibit strong alkaline phosphatase activity and a clear leucinaminopeptidase activity. They contain Weibel-Palade bodies. 3. The ultrastructural analysis of the tumor cells shows a proliferative formation resembling capillary sprouts with and without lumina. The lumina are composed primarily of poorly differentiated endothelial cells. A second typical cellular component are fibroblast-like tumor cells possibly derived from perithelial cells. 4. Indicative of M.K. are also extravasation and phagocytosis of erythrocytes with intracytoplasmic decomposition, and storage of myelinlike structures somewhat resembling Schwannian-cells. 5.
CONCLUSION
M.K. is characterized by a multifocal neoplasia of capillary like structures and by a progressive sarcomatous development.
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