Céspedes MEE, Niebla ÁBA, Morales GJ, Téllez BJL, Recinos CEG

Language: English
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ABSTRACT

The frequency of Kaposi´s sarcoma (KS) in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has decreased since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Its commonest manifestations are cutaneous violaceous papulae or nodules. When KS presents in the tracheobronchial tree, the lesions are usually flat or only slightly elevated, and seldom produce symptoms of airway obstruction.
We report a case of an homosexual man with AIDS and cutaneous lesions, admitted with a 20 day’s history of progressive upper airway obstruction without a past history of tracheal intubation, instrumentation or trauma, the responsible lesion being an upper intratracheal KS obstructing about 60% of the tracheal lumen; a vocal cord nodule and the cutaneous lesions were also KS.

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