An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding

A 10-year-old boy presented with a 3-day history of worsening abdominal pain, fever, emesis and melena. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a right upper quadrant mass that was confirmed by computed tomography angiogram (CTA), which showed an 8 cm well-defined retroperitoneal vascular mass. (123)Iodine me...

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Autores principales: Fiorino, Kristin N., Lestini, Brian, Nichols, Kim E., Anupindi, Sudha A., Maqbool, Asim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/748543
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author Fiorino, Kristin N.
Lestini, Brian
Nichols, Kim E.
Anupindi, Sudha A.
Maqbool, Asim
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description A 10-year-old boy presented with a 3-day history of worsening abdominal pain, fever, emesis and melena. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a right upper quadrant mass that was confirmed by computed tomography angiogram (CTA), which showed an 8 cm well-defined retroperitoneal vascular mass. (123)Iodine metaiodobenzylguanidine ((123)MIBG) scan indicated uptake only in the abdominal mass. Subsequent biopsy revealed a paraganglioma that was treated with chemotherapy. This case represents an unusual presentation of a paraganglioma associated with gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and highlights the utility of CTA and (123)MIBG in evaluation and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-33500362012-05-17 An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding Fiorino, Kristin N. Lestini, Brian Nichols, Kim E. Anupindi, Sudha A. Maqbool, Asim Case Rep Pediatr Case Report A 10-year-old boy presented with a 3-day history of worsening abdominal pain, fever, emesis and melena. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a right upper quadrant mass that was confirmed by computed tomography angiogram (CTA), which showed an 8 cm well-defined retroperitoneal vascular mass. (123)Iodine metaiodobenzylguanidine ((123)MIBG) scan indicated uptake only in the abdominal mass. Subsequent biopsy revealed a paraganglioma that was treated with chemotherapy. This case represents an unusual presentation of a paraganglioma associated with gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and highlights the utility of CTA and (123)MIBG in evaluation and treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2012-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3350036/ /pubmed/22606522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/748543 Text en Copyright © 2011 Kristin N. Fiorino et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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