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Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed
Vascular malformation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract along with metachronous lesions elsewhere in the body is extremely rare. We report an unusual case of a female child, with a history of venous malformation excision over the right leg presenting with severe iron-deficiency anemia. Although ven...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35261527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_290_20 |
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author | Patil, Neehar Shetty, Jeevak Kadamba, Padmalatha S. Somashekhar, Manjiri Kumari, M. K. Kalpana |
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description | Vascular malformation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract along with metachronous lesions elsewhere in the body is extremely rare. We report an unusual case of a female child, with a history of venous malformation excision over the right leg presenting with severe iron-deficiency anemia. Although venous malformations of the small bowel are a rare cause of occult GI bleed, in the presence of cutaneous vascular lesions, there should be a high index of suspicion of a vascular malformation, along with the other causes of GI bleed in children. |
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spelling | pubmed-88536032022-03-07 Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed Patil, Neehar Shetty, Jeevak Kadamba, Padmalatha S. Somashekhar, Manjiri Kumari, M. K. Kalpana J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Vascular malformation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract along with metachronous lesions elsewhere in the body is extremely rare. We report an unusual case of a female child, with a history of venous malformation excision over the right leg presenting with severe iron-deficiency anemia. Although venous malformations of the small bowel are a rare cause of occult GI bleed, in the presence of cutaneous vascular lesions, there should be a high index of suspicion of a vascular malformation, along with the other causes of GI bleed in children. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8853603/ /pubmed/35261527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_290_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Patil, Neehar Shetty, Jeevak Kadamba, Padmalatha S. Somashekhar, Manjiri Kumari, M. K. Kalpana Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed |
title | Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed |
title_full | Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed |
title_fullStr | Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed |
title_full_unstemmed | Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed |
title_short | Metachronous Venous Malformation Masquerading as an Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleed |
title_sort | metachronous venous malformation masquerading as an obscure gastrointestinal bleed |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35261527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_290_20 |
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