[Gastrointestinal bleeding caused by small bowel leiomyosarcoma].
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.
Baños Madrid
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R
Unidad de Endoscopia Digestiva, Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia. rbmadrid71@yahoo.es
Albaladejo Meroño
A
A
Serrano Jiménez
A
A
Alajarín Cervera
M
M
Vargas Acosta
A
A
Alberca de las Parras
F
F
Molina Martínez
J
J
Carballo
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F
D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged