title: The surgery for blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome.
abstract: Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare vascular anomaly syndrome consisting of multifocal venous malformations (VM). The malformations are most. prominent in the skin, soft tissues and gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Chronic bleeding induced by the vascular malformation (VM) lesions in gastrointestinal (GI) tract was the main clinical problem which should be treated. In this paper, two patients with BRBNS were treated by surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding. Our results indicated the endoscope examination was the best diagnostic way for VM in GI. Although many therapeutic methods have been tried, aggressive surgical eradication was the most effective for venous anomalies that cause GI bleeding in BRBNS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Hongyao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Donghai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Ngotta
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Victor
authors.affiliation: Department of Biliary-pancreatic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China.
authors.forename: Yongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Jiexiong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School and the C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Teitelbaum
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
keywords: Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS); Surgery; Venous malformations (VM)