Hemosuccus pancreaticus: a rare complication of chronic pancreatitis
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Hemosuccus Pancreaticus: A Rare Complication in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis
INTRODUCTION Hemorrhage from the pancreatic duct is a rare source of gastrointestinal bleeding and references to it in the medical literature remain mostly limited to case reports and short reviews, with about 100 cases identified to date (1,2). Since the first report by Lower and Farrel in 1931 (3), many terms have been used to describe the phenomenon, including wirsungorrhagia proposed by Van...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Case Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2015-209872