Late-Onset Primary Intestinal Lymphangiectasia Successfully Managed with Octreotide: A Case Report
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Late-onset primary intestinal lymphangiectasia successfully managed with octreotide: a case report.
We report a case of a patient with late-onset primary lymphangiectasia whose persistent diarrhoea was successfully managed with octreotide. A 63 year-old man visited our clinic with a complaint of worsening general edema. Gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed typical whitish jejunal villi, which suggested primary intestinal lymphangiectasia. Despite a diet, supplemented with medium-chain triglyce...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Vascular Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1881-641X,1881-6428
DOI: 10.3400/avd.cr.11.00085