title: [Gastrointestinal bleeding caused by small bowel leiomyosarcoma].
abstract: The small bowel leiomyosarcoma is a infrequent tumour in the clinical practice. We report the case of a 50 year old male admitted to the hospital on two occasions for gastrointestinal bleeding. On the second occasion a push enteroscopy located in jejunum a tumour. The pathologic diagnosis was a low grade jejunal leiomyosarcoma. The patient required a surgical intervention with resection of the affected portion of the jejunum.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Endoscopia Digestiva, Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia. rbmadrid71@yahoo.es
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baños Madrid
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Albaladejo Meroño
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serrano Jiménez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alajarín Cervera
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vargas Acosta
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alberca de las Parras
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Molina Martínez
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Carballo
mesh_terms: D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged