Diagnostic imaging of the small bowel in a case of occult gastrointestinal bleeding.
A case of a male patient with occult gastrointestinal bleeding and negative gastroscopy and colonoscopy is presented and discussed. Oral small bowel barium follow-through was performed upon the patient request. It documented a jejunal neoformation. The analysis of radiologic findings directed towards a probably extramucosal origin. Subsequent CT evaluation confirmed a neoformation inseparable from a jejunal loop with inhomogeneous contrast enhancement, therefore of suspected malignant nature. The histological examination on the surgical specimen documented the presence of a stromal tumor of indeterminate malignancy.
Perrone
Luca
L
Istituto di Radiologia, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Policlinico A. Gemelli, Roma, Italy.
Minordi
Laura Maria
LM
Canadè
Adolfo
A
Vecchioli
Amorino
A
D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017154:Stromal Cells; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed