[Acute enterorrhagia in a young adult: emergency treatment].
A case of enterorrhagia sustained by arteriovenous malformation of the caecum in a young patient is reported. The importance of an early diagnosis to avert a serious anemia is underlined. Preminent role of colonscopy and selective visceral angiography in the diagnosis of such disease is discussed. At first a conservative urgently treatment of caecum bleeding is advised. Subsequently, when the patients is in more favourable conditions, an elective surgical operation is considered as essential.
Vietri
F
F
Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica IV, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.
Guglielmi
R
R
Belbusti
M
M
Tombolini
P
P
Lavalle
G
G
Fabbri
F
F
Annessi
M
M
D000328:Adult; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
Enterorragia acuta in età giovanile: trattamento d'urgenza.