RESUMO
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.
Assuntos
Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/complicações , Neoplasias Gastrointestinais/etiologia , Homossexualidade , Sarcoma de Kaposi/etiologia , Adulto , Duodenopatias/etiologia , Humanos , Doenças do Íleo/etiologia , Obstrução Intestinal/etiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
A prostatic tumor that was excised from a sixty-two-year-old man was found histologically to resemble papillary endometrial carcinoma. A specimen of this prostatic endometrioid carcinoma tested positive for prostate-specific antigen and focally positive for mucin, confirming the prostatic epithelial origin of the tumor. A review of the literature indicates that tumors of this type are best approached as a standard acinar adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
