Cavernous haemangioma of the jejunum. Long-standing anaemia in a child.
A 15-year-old boy who had been examined for almost lifelong iron deficiency anaemia caused by occult gastrointestinal bleeding was eventually, by abdominal surgery, found to have a cavernous haemangioma of the jejunum. A diagnostic approach is described and the importance of systematic evaluation and subsequent diagnosis in such patients is stressed.
Hansen
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Department of Pathology, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Boesgaard
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S
Andersen
J
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male