Kaposi’s sarcoma presenting as acute small bowel obstruction diagnosed on multidetector computed tomography with histopathological correlation,” Case Reports

Copyright © 2015 Jaydeep Halankar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Kaposi’s sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in 1872 as a rare form of multiple hemorrhagic skin lesions. Today it is well documented as a systemic, multifocal, steadily progressive reticuloendothelial system tumor with a predilection for skin and visceral involvement. It occasionally presents as a visceral disease without skinmanifestations.We report a case of Kaposi’s sarcoma of the small bowel in a seropositive patient who presented with acute right lower quadrant pain and was diagnosed with intestinal obstruction with perforation on contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). The diagnosis was confirmed as Kaposi’s sarcoma on postoperative histopathological analysis. 1. Case Report Over one hundred years ago Moritz Kaposi described an unusual hemorrhagic cutaneous lesion, which has been known since as Kaposi’s sarcoma [1]. Visceral involvement which occurs in a small number of patients (less than 10 percent) with skin lesions is considered as amulticentric foca