Gastric hemorrhage and Kaposi's sarcoma treated with radiotherapy.
A 66-year-old man, with advanced alcoholic liver disease with Kaposi's sarcoma involving the stomach and the skin of the lower extremities, developed upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. He was treated with radiation therapy to the stomach and the skin with rapid resolution of the gastric lesions, as demonstrated by serial endoscopy.
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Department of Medicine, Barnert Memorial Hospital Center, Paterson, NJ.
Samanta
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Venkataseshan
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Kiernan
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D000368:Aged; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic; D008297:Male; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*