Girl with Kaposi's disease
Wellcome Collection

Girl with Kaposi's disease

Mark, Leonard Portal

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Watercolour drawing of the head and shoulders 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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