Intraoperative enteroscopy for diagnosis of a bleeding jejunal lymphangioma.
A patient with recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding from a jejunal lymphangioma is described. Multiple preoperative diagnostic studies, including sonde enteroscopy, failed to reveal a bleeding source. A bleeding lymphangioma was subsequently detected by intraoperative enteroscopy of the small bowel. Intraoperative enteroscopy was a useful diagnostic technique in this patient with otherwise unexplained gastrointestinal bleeding.
Ugwonali
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O
Department of General Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8019, USA.
Coady
M
M
Saxena
R
R
Robert
M
M
Horowitz
N
N
Topazian
M
M
D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008202:Lymphangioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged