title: Kaposi's sarcoma of the gallbladder.
abstract: A 30-year-old man with symptomatic acquired immunodeficiency syndrome presented with abdominal pain and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Radiographic studies revealed thickening of the gallbladder wall. Following stabilization of the coagulation disorder, the patient underwent a cholecystectomy, and the gallbladder was found to contain Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). There have been no previously published reports of KS found in the gallbladder of a living patient in the absence of cutaneous manifestations of KS. The current case illustrates that KS is a multi-focal systemic disease which may have extracutaneous primary manifestations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Enad
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lapa
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jaklic
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Nellestein
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Ghosh
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000473:pathology; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology