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ReviewJournal of medical virology2023

Today's Kaposi sarcoma is not the same as it was 40 years ago, or is it?

Blossom Damania, Dirk P Dittmer

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Review in Journal of medical virology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Spatial Profiling Shows That Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Form the Core of Kaposi Sarcoma (KS).Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2026
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  16. Advancing Cancer Research: Current Knowledge on Cutaneous Neoplasia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Blossom DamaniaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9205-1774
Dirk P DittmerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4968-5656
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Vironomics and Biostatistics CoreP01CA019014 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BLOSSOM A DAMANIA, NANCY JOAN RAAB-TRAUB · 1985 to 2026
$43.8M
ART Modulation of Viral Pathogenesis in Oral EpitheliaR01DE018304 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DITTMER, DIRK P · 2007 to 2025
$6.9M
The road to recovery: An assessment of patient-reported quality of life among cancer survivors in Malawi.U54CA254564 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CHIBWESHA, CARLA J, DAMANIA, BLOSSOM A · 2020 to 2024
$6.1M
Mechanisms of KSHV TransmissionR01CA239583 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAMANIA, BLOSSOM A, DITTMER, DIRK P · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
Impact of HIV on the Tumor MicroenvironmentR01CA228172 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAMANIA, BLOSSOM A, DITTMER, DIRK P · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA019014NCI NIH HHS R01 CA228172NCI NIH HHS R01 CA239583NCI NIH HHS U54 CA254564NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE018304
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review will provide an overview of the notion that Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a disease that manifests under diverse and divergent circumstances. We begin with a historical introduction of KS and KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), highlight the diversity of clinical presentations of KS, summarize what we know about the cell of origin for this tumor, explore KSHV viral load as a potential biomarker for acute KSHV infections and KS-associated complications, and discuss immune modulators that impact KSHV infection, KSHV persistence, and KS disease.

Indexed as

Herpesvirus 8, HumanSarcoma, KaposiHumansViral LoadherpesvirusKaposi sarcomaKSHV

Identifiers

PMID37212317
PMCPMC10266714
OpenAlexW4375862389

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Registered trials

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