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Gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma as the first manifestation of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
S C Kadakia1, A S Kadakia, K W Westphal
1Department of Medicine, Letterman Army Medical Center, Presidio of San Francisco, Calif.
Southern Medical Journal
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma can occur in HIV-infected patients without previously diagnosed AIDS. Gastrointestinal symptoms in such patients should be thoroughly investigated because of the possibility of gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma, despite the absence of the cutaneous form. The discovery of gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma establishes the diagnosis of AIDS, as it did in our two patients.