title: Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: preoperative CT-guided percutaneous needle localization of the bleeding small bowel segment.
abstract: A 57-year-old woman presented with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Double balloon enteroscopy, angiography, and surgery including intraoperative enteroscopy failed to identify the bleeding site. Multidetector computed tomography (CT) depicted active bleeding of a small bowel segment. The bleeding segment was localized by CT-guided percutaneous needle insertion and subsequently removed surgically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. heiss.peter@web.de
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Heiss
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feuerbach
authors.forename: Igors
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Iesalnieks
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rockmann
authors.forename: Christian E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Wrede
authors.forename: Niels
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authors.lastname: Zorger
authors.forename: Hans J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Schlitt
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schölmerich
authors.forename: Okka W
authors.initials: OW
authors.lastname: Hamer