title: Familial varices of the colon.
abstract: Two patients from the same family with varices throughout the entire colon and no apparent portal hypertension, are described. One patient experienced profuse bleeding after polypectomy, the other had recurrent rectal blood loss.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis, MJ's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Beermann
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Lagaay
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: van Nouhuys
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Overbosch
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003106:Colon / Q000098:blood supply*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012007:Rectum; D012307:Risk Factors; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000235:genetics*