305Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam 2014;44(4)305-310 ♦MANUSCRITO ORIGINAL Anal squamous cell carcinoma in HIV/AIDS patients in

Background. Anal squamous cell carcinoma is a rare neo-plasm with a higher incidence in the HIV-seropositive po-pulation. Patients and methods. Epidemiologic, clinic, immunologic, virologic and therapeutic characteristics of 8 HIV-positive patients with anal squamous cell carcinoma were descriptively and retrospectively analyzed from 2005 to 2011. Results. Median of age of patients was 39 years, 75 % were male and 83 % were men who have sex with men. Median elapsed time from HIV infection to anal cancer diagnosis was 10.5 ± 9.5 years. Anal pain and local large tumors detected by physical examination were the most com-mon clinical manifestations; pain with or without itching was marginally correlated with poor survival. The median of CD4 T-cell count for the whole study group was 330 cells/µL. At the time of the neoplasm diagnosis, CD4 T-cell count wa