Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: preoperative CT-guided percutaneous needle localization of the bleeding small bowel segment.
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.
Heiss
Peter
P
Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. heiss.peter@web.de
Feuerbach
Stefan
S
Iesalnieks
Igors
I
Rockmann
Felix
F
Wrede
Christian E
CE
Zorger
Niels
N
Schlitt
Hans J
HJ
Schölmerich
Jürgen
J
Hamer
Okka W
OW