Intraabdominal variceal bleeding.
A patient with known liver cirrhosis, but no previous variceal bleeding, presented with sudden abdominal pain and distention, hypotension, and bloody ascitic fluid. At exploration, he was found to be bleeding from varices in the gastrohepatic omentum and perisplenic area. Pathology of the liver showed cirrhosis and metastatic undifferentiated carcinoma.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000098:blood supply*; D000368:Aged; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D009852:Omentum; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000150:complications*