POORLY DIFFERENTIATED NON-SMALL-CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG IN ACQUIRED-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-SYNDROME

Case of a 33-year-old female with AIDS who presented with fevers, chil ls, lower back pain and a large right hilar mass. Biopsy of the right paratracheal nodes revealed poorly differentiated non-small cell carci noma with extensive necrosis. In patients infected with HIV the incide nce of primary lung carcinoma is unknown. Despite these uncertainties, primary lung carcinoma must be considered in the differential diagnos is of young HIV-infected individuals presenting with intrathoracic rad iographic abnormalities.