Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome.

نویسندگان

  • Hatef Massoumi
  • Sharad Patel
چکیده

A 61-year-old woman who had hypertension and diabetes presented to the gastroenterology clinic with profound fatigue and malaise of about 6 months’ duration. She denied any chest pain, shortness of breath, hematochezia, melena, hematemesis, or constitutional symptoms. The patient reported no new prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, or herbal supplements. She said that a screening colonoscopy 10 years earlier had been “normal.”

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Gastrointestinal endoscopy

دوره 65 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007