HIV-Negative Gastric Kaposi's sarcoma: A Case Report

Konso, Mariam and Errabih, Ikram and Maati, Maha el and Mechhor, Salma and Malki, Manal Cherkaoui and Senouci, Karima and Benzzoubeir, Nadia and Bacha, Hicham El (2025) HIV-Negative Gastric Kaposi's sarcoma: A Case Report. International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 15 (3). pp. 1216-1219. ISSN 2582-8185

Kaposi's sarcoma is a mucocutaneous disease that mainly affects the elderly and HIV-infected individuals. However, digestive localization has often been observed during upper digestive endoscopies performed to search for secondary localization. It most often occurred in non-immunocompetent patients. However, endoscopy remains the examination of choice for confirming digestive tract involvement in KS. KS is diagnosed histologically, but in the literature, only 15-20% of endoscopic biopsies are positive for KS. We report a gastric case of Kaposi's sarcoma patient with negative HIV serology who was referred to a digestive endoscopy unit in search of secondary digestive lesions.