title: Midget submarine for diagnosing midgut lesions in children.
abstract: Anaemia due to obscure gastrointestinal blood loss remains a challenge to the clinician, especially when blood loss is severe enough to result in profound anaemia while further investigations fail to identify the cause of bleeding. A description of how wireless capsule endoscopy revealed a bleeding jejunal haemangioma in a 2.5-year-old boy with recurrent anaemia is given. New techniques such as wireless capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy are feasible and provide a valuable adjunct to the diagnostic investigation of children with obscure enteral blood loss.
authors: Atrium Medical Center, Paediatrics, PO Box 4446, Heerlen, 6401 CX, The Netherlands.
authors: Ward
authors: W
authors: Vanagt
authors: Marc A
authors: MA
authors: De Bièvre
authors: Anita M
authors: AM
authors: Van den Neucker
authors: Ernst W
authors: EW
authors: Van Heurn
authors: Pierre M
authors: PM
authors: Theunissen