title: [Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome: A case report].
abstract: Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome (BRBS) is a rare disease, characterized by multiple vascular malformations in the skin and gastrointestinal tract. Other organs can also be affected, presenting different clinical manifestations such as arthralgia, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria, hemothorax, mild thrombocytopenia, consumptive coagulopathy, and bone deformities, among others. We present a case of BRBS in a nine-year-old boy with the characteristic clinical manifestations of punctated purplish-blue skin lesions that vary in size and gastrointestinal vascular malformations with upper digestive tract bleeding.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Gastroenterología y Nutrición, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, México, D.F., México. martha_veronical@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: López-Ugalde
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Cazares-Méndez
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Vivar-Aquino
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cadena-León
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cervantes-Bustamante
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zárate-Mondragón
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Montijo-Barrios
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Mayans
mesh_terms: D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D018329:Nevus, Blue / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery