Girl with Kaposi's disease

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Girl with Kaposi's disease. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Black and white photograph of a girl, aged eight, suffering from so called Kaposi's disease (xerodermia pigmentosa). A microscopic study of one of the nodules showed that it was indistinguishable from ordinary epithelioma.

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