Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Small Bowel Lipoma

Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is a very rare entity which accounts for less than 5% of all gastrointestinal bleeding cases. Small bowel tumors are rare but a serious source of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Lipomas are the second most common benign tumors in the small bowel and can produce m...

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Veröffentlicht in:Internal Medicine 2008, Vol.47(18), pp.1601-1603
Hauptverfasser: Chou, Jen-Wei, Feng, Chun-Lung, Lai, Hsueh-Chou, Tsai, Chin-Chi, Chen, Sheng-Hung, Hsu, Chang-Hu, Cheng, Ken-Sheng, Peng, Cheng-Yuan, Chung, Ping-Kuei
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Zusammenfassung:Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is a very rare entity which accounts for less than 5% of all gastrointestinal bleeding cases. Small bowel tumors are rare but a serious source of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. Lipomas are the second most common benign tumors in the small bowel and can produce many complications, including gastrointestinal bleeding. Herein, we describe a case of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding caused by a small bowel tumor which was detected by capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy preoperatively. Finally, the tumor was surgically confirmed to be a lipoma.
ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0963