Year 2012 / Volume 104 / Number 1
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Upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to gastric and duodenal kaposi’s sarcoma

pp. 33-34

Laura Bello Rodríguez, Remedios Pardeiro Pértega, Ignacio Couto Wörner, Pilar Vázquez Rodríguez, Soledad López Calvo, María Ángeles Castro Iglesias, Alvaro Mena de Cea, Pedro Alonso Aguirre y José Domingo Pedreira Andrade

Abstract
A 30-year-old homosexual male was recently diagnosed with HIV infection (category A2). He was been admitted into the hospital because of anal pain and diarrhea of 8 months. He presented
purplish cutaneous lesions, laterocervical adenopathies and a palpable anal mass. The rest of physical exploration did not reveal any other significant alteration. The amount of CD4
was 350 cells/mL and the viral load of 10,000 copies/mL. Fecal cultures were negative. A colonoscopy was performed and detected an ulcerated rectal mass that was biopsied (Fig. 1). He
presented an episode of hematemesis so it was performed an upper endoscopy which demonstrated the presence of lesions
suggestive of Kaposi’s in the stomach (Fig. 2) and duodenum (Fig. 3).
The definitive anatomopathologic diagnosis of the cutaneous
anal lesion, gastric biopsy and adenopathies was Kaposi’s sarcoma. The patient began antiretroviral treatment and chemotherapy with liposomal doxorubicin and radiotherapy.
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Laura Bello Rodríguez, Remedios Pardeiro Pértega, Ignacio Couto Wörner, Pilar Vázquez Rodríguez, Soledad López Calvo, María Ángeles Castro Iglesias, Alvaro Mena de Cea, Pedro Alonso Aguirre y José Domingo Pedreira Andrade. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to gastric and duodenal kaposi’s sarcoma. 33-34


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