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Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image

A man in his 40’s was admitted to the general surgery ward with multiple episodes of large amounts of painless bright red per rectal (PR) bleeding and passage of clots. Urgent outpatient colonoscopy revealed a diverticulum which was associated with a wide diameter blood vessel originating from its b...

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Autores principales: Brewer, Christopher F, Al Abed, Yayha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8555758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34725603
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18350
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description A man in his 40’s was admitted to the general surgery ward with multiple episodes of large amounts of painless bright red per rectal (PR) bleeding and passage of clots. Urgent outpatient colonoscopy revealed a diverticulum which was associated with a wide diameter blood vessel originating from its base which was not actively bleeding. The clinical picture presented by the colonoscopy is one of the first to clearly identify large caliber blood vessels emerging from a colonic diverticulum.
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spelling pubmed-85557582021-10-31 Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image Brewer, Christopher F Al Abed, Yayha Cureus General Surgery A man in his 40’s was admitted to the general surgery ward with multiple episodes of large amounts of painless bright red per rectal (PR) bleeding and passage of clots. Urgent outpatient colonoscopy revealed a diverticulum which was associated with a wide diameter blood vessel originating from its base which was not actively bleeding. The clinical picture presented by the colonoscopy is one of the first to clearly identify large caliber blood vessels emerging from a colonic diverticulum. Cureus 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8555758/ /pubmed/34725603 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18350 Text en Copyright © 2021, Brewer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Brewer, Christopher F
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title Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image
title_full Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image
title_fullStr Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image
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title_short Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image
title_sort diverticular bleeding: a clinical image
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8555758/
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