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Although intestinal involvement occurs in more than half of the cases with KS that are HIV positive, it is uncommon in the classical form, as it occurs in approximately 10% of the patients. We present the case of a 60-year-old male patient with a one-year disease time characterized by having violaceous lesions on the feet and the hands, slightly pruritic and 2 months of epigastralgia and constipation with weight loss of approximately 12 percent of his total body weight. In the physical examination multiple violaceous papule-like lesions are shown on the hands and the feet, some coalescing to form plaques. Laboratory tests revealed a mild normocytic normocytic anemia, the serology for viral hepatitis B and C was negative, HIV negative and ELISA test too. An upper endoscopy was performed and multiple maculopapular and erythematous-violaceous lesions were observed in the esoph-agus, the sto...