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Arvid Afzelius (1857–1923) was a Swedish dermatologist.As a student at the Karolinska institutet Afzelius studied under the prominent dermatologist Moritz Kaposi (1837–1902) in Vienna. Kaposi has now become a household name because his sarcoma is a common lesion in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.In a 1909 meeting of the Swedish Society of Dermatology Arvid Afzelius presented research about an expanding ring like lesion he had observed.