KAPOSIS-SARCOMA OF THE BILIARY-TRACT WITH OUT CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS IN AIDS

A 30 year-old man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was admitted because of abdominal pain, jaundice and fever, A severe pancreatitis without gallstones was detected, Later, dilation of biliary tract and clinical worsening appeared, Cholangiography revealed sclerosing chola ngitis and papillary stenosis, Kaposi's sarcoma of the gallbladder inv ading the biliary tract was found, Only two reports of Kaposi's sarcom a of the biliary tract without cutaneous lesions have been published i n a living patient. Pancreatitis has not been previously described as a clinical presentation of this malignancy.