title: Endoscopic haemostasis by polypectomy: a case of sigmoid colon tubular adenoma with arterial haemorrhage.
abstract: An 84-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a massive lower intestinal bleeding (LIB). The enhanced CT showed extravasation of blood in the sigmoid colon during the arterial phase. After discussion with the interventional radiologists, we proceeded to perform emergency colonoscopy that demonstrated massive gushing of blood from a pedunculated sigmoid colon polyp. The polyp was removed by snare polypectomy, which resulted in complete haemostasis. The pathological finding of the resected lesion was a tubular adenoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Narihiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shibukawa
authors.forename: Noriyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kuzushita
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
authors.forename: Atsuo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Inoue
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D020685:Colonoscopes; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016558:Hemostasis, Endoscopic; D006801:Humans; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery