Intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm - a case report

INTRODUCTION: Hematemesis caused by intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm, is an exceptional and potentially lethal emergency. CASE PRESENTATION: A 36 years old woman, mother of seven children presented with hematemesis. The gastric endoscopy revealed a bleeding polypoid lesion leading t...

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Autores principales: Ousadden, Abdelmalek, Ibnmajdoub, Karim H, Elbouhaddouti, Hicham, Mazaz, Khalid, AitTaleb, Khalid
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-202
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author Ousadden, Abdelmalek
Ibnmajdoub, Karim H
Elbouhaddouti, Hicham
Mazaz, Khalid
AitTaleb, Khalid
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description INTRODUCTION: Hematemesis caused by intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm, is an exceptional and potentially lethal emergency. CASE PRESENTATION: A 36 years old woman, mother of seven children presented with hematemesis. The gastric endoscopy revealed a bleeding polypoid lesion leading to a surgical management. The operative discovery of a complicated splenic artery aneurysm, led to its resection with splenectomy and gastric suture. CONCLUSION: Intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm is an exceptional emergency which urgent diagnosis and management can avoid a potential lethal evolution.
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spelling pubmed-28038672010-01-10 Intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm - a case report Ousadden, Abdelmalek Ibnmajdoub, Karim H Elbouhaddouti, Hicham Mazaz, Khalid AitTaleb, Khalid Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Hematemesis caused by intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm, is an exceptional and potentially lethal emergency. CASE PRESENTATION: A 36 years old woman, mother of seven children presented with hematemesis. The gastric endoscopy revealed a bleeding polypoid lesion leading to a surgical management. The operative discovery of a complicated splenic artery aneurysm, led to its resection with splenectomy and gastric suture. CONCLUSION: Intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm is an exceptional emergency which urgent diagnosis and management can avoid a potential lethal evolution. BioMed Central 2009-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2803867/ /pubmed/20062707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-202 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ousadden et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm - a case report
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title_short Intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm - a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803867/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-202
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