Case report: therapeutic transcatheter embolotherapy in the control of recurrent haemorrhage from lymphoma of the small bowel.
Lymphoma is one of the commonest primary malignancies of the small bowel. Gastrointestinal tract haemorrhage is a relatively infrequent presenting feature or complication. We describe the use of repeated transcatheter embolization as the primary treatment in the control of recurrent haemorrhage from the small bowel in a patient with B-cell lymphoma. Few cases of transcatheter embolotherapy have been described in such situations. This form of treatment is a therapeutic option in those unfit for transcatheter vasoconstrictor infusion or surgery.
Howlett
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Department of Radiology, St Thomas's Hospital, London, UK.
Farrugia
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Irvine
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D000368:Aged; D004379:Duodenal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000150:complications*; D017538:Mesenteric Artery, Superior; D012008:Recurrence