Table 1.

 Main data from previously published articles on the coexistence of colonic Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) and ulcerative colitis (UC)

Reference	Year of publication	HIV status	Pathology of the colon	Skin lesion	Treatment
Gordon9	1966	No information	UC	No	Colectomy
Adlersberg10	1970	No infoarmation	Non-specific colitis	No	Colectomy
Roth11	1978	No information	Segmental non-specific colitis	Yes	Subtotal colectomy
Weber12	1985	Positive	Non-specific colitis of the rectosigmoid colon, separate lesion in the caecum	Yes	Alpha interferon+radiotherapy of rectal KS
Biggs13	1987	Positive	UC	Yes	Urgent colectomy for toxic megacolon and later abdominoperineal excision for rectal KS
Meltzer14	1987	Negative	UC distal to the descendent colon	Yes	Proctocolectomy with ileostomy
Thompson15	1989	Negative	UC	No	Restorative proctocolectomy
Tedesco16	1999	Negative	UC	No	Restorative proctocolectomy