practical lessons from the small bowel bleeding lesions: a case report on small bowel cavernous hemangioma

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Dear Editor, Small bowel bleeding accounts for 5% of all gastrointestinal bleeding cases. Vascular lesions of the gastrointestinal tract include hemangioma, telangiectasia, angiodysplasia and phlebectasia1 and they account for 5-10% of all benign neoplasms of the small bowel.2 The diagnosis of small bowel hemangioma is not easy and different modalities with different diagnostic accuracy could b...

Report of an interesting case of small bowel duplication [Persian]

  A 13 years old boy with severe abdominal pain and history of intermittent (II bleeding since the aye of 3 months, is presented. Different diagnostic procedures were unremarkable. A Tc-99m Pertechnetate abdominal study revealed abnormal radionuclide accumulation in small bowel region. Duplication of small bowel was suspected which was confirmed by surgery and patholo...

Cavernous Hemangioma of the Small Bowel Presenting with Occult Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

This article is representing a 70 year-old woman with chronic iron deficiency anemia secondary to small bowel cavernous hemangioma.

Small bowel obstruction by a terminal ileum carcinoid tumor: a case report

Abstract Carcinoid tumors are well differentiated neuroendocrine tumors with secretory components. These tumors are uncommon but the most common primary tumors of the distal small intestine. We present a rare terminal ileum carcinoid tumor presenting with a small bowel obstruction. A 65 years old man presented with intermittent, gen-eralized, dull and colicky abdominal pain accompanied with int...

inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the small bowel: a case report

inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (imt) is a rare neoplastic lesion with tendency toward local aggressive behavior and recurrence. the tumor most commonly occurs in the pulmonary system of children and young adult, although it may rarely develop in older patients and other organs. symptoms are non-specific and depend on the location of the tumor. the gastrointestinal tract is rarely the primar...