Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma
Intestinal perforation in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients due solely to Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) has rarely been described. A homosexual man with acquired immunodeficiency...
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| Series: | Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology |
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| author | Eric M Yoshida Norman HL Chan Clifford Chan-Yan Robert M Baird |
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| description | Intestinal perforation in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients due solely to Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) has rarely been described. A homosexual man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related KS who presented with an acute abdomen is presented. He was found to have a jejunal perforation through a small KS lesion. There were no infectious organisms identified at the site of perforation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-833f93de507849bcbc7d18f73b31725c2025-02-03T01:12:33ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology0835-79001997-01-01111384010.1155/1997/425861Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's SarcomaEric M YoshidaNorman HL ChanClifford Chan-YanRobert M BairdIntestinal perforation in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients due solely to Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) has rarely been described. A homosexual man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related KS who presented with an acute abdomen is presented. He was found to have a jejunal perforation through a small KS lesion. There were no infectious organisms identified at the site of perforation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1997/425861 |
| spellingShingle | Eric M Yoshida Norman HL Chan Clifford Chan-Yan Robert M Baird Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology |
| title | Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma |
| title_full | Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma |
| title_fullStr | Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma |
| title_short | Perforation of the Jejunum Secondary to AIDS-Related Gastrointestinal Kaposi's Sarcoma |
| title_sort | perforation of the jejunum secondary to aids related gastrointestinal kaposi s sarcoma |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1997/425861 |
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