Combined use of laparoscopy and endoscopy in diagnosing and treating Dieulafoy's vascular malformations of the stomach.
We present the case of a 70-year-old female successfully treated for a bleeding Dieulafoy's gastric lesion with a combined laparoscopic/endoscopic approach. An increasing percentage of surgery is now being performed laparoscopically and the authors feel that combined laparoscopic/endoscopic surgery offers advantages to the patient over either of these methods individually and over open surgery. This report demonstrates that a bleeding point anywhere on the gastric wall is amenable to laparoscopic intervention if the localization techniques we describe are utilized.
Ferzli
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Department of Surgery, Staten Island University Hospital, NY 10305.
Ozuner
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Shaps
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Kiel
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D000368:Aged; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*