Kaposi肉瘤在西方世界曾被认为是一种少见病,但作为艾滋病(AIDS)流行的先驱病变,在1981年突然闻名于世.为了进一步阐明这种新生物的发病机制,作者对6例AIDS伴有肢体表皮Kaposi肉瘤患者进行了周围淋巴系统淋巴管闪烁显像,并将其显像表现与肢体正常者以及原发或继发淋巴水肿患者的淋巴显像结果做了对比. Kaposi’s sarcoma was considered to be a rare disease in the western world, but as a precursor of the AIDS epidemic, it was suddenly famous in 1981. To further clarify the pathogenesis of this new organism, the authors studied 6 cases of AIDS. Patients with limb epidermal Kaposi’s sarcoma had lymphangiographic scintigraphy of the peripheral lymphatic system and contrasted their imaging findings with those of lymphoid patients with normal limbs and primary or secondary lymphedema.