Aggressive angiomyxoma of the jejunum: a rare cause of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding accounts for nearly 5% of all gastrointestinal haemorrhage and is frequently due to a lesion in the small bowel. We report the case of a male patient with obscure overt gastrointestinal bleed in whom repeated upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, colonoscopy, computed tomography scanning and exploratory laparotomy showed no specific pathology. However, on capsule endoscopy done subsequently, a small polyp in the jejunum was located and resected. Histology revealed an aggressive angiomyxoma. This type of small bowel lesion has not been reported in the literature before.
Tiwari
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Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
Magu
S K
SK
Ghoshal
U C
UC
Sharma
A K
AK
D000328:Adult; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007580:Jejunal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology*