BLUE RUBBER BLEB NEVUS SYNDROME: TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE GASTROINTESTINAL HEMANGIOMAS WITH ARGON PLASMA COAGULATOR
| Autor: | Philip Wai Yan Chiu, Enders K.W. Ng, Frances K. Cheung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology medicine.medical_treatment Argon plasma coagulation Ileum Hemangioma Young Adult medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Gastrointestinal tract Laser Coagulation medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Stomach Gastroenterology Anemia medicine.disease eye diseases Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome Endoscopy Surgery body regions Hemangioma Cavernous medicine.anatomical_structure Lasers Gas Female sense organs Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage business Laser coagulation |
| Zdroj: | Digestive Endoscopy. 21:40-42 |
| ISSN: | 1443-1661 0915-5635 |
| Popis: | Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome is a rare clinical entity characterized by the formation of multiple blue or purplish rubbery cavernous hemangiomas on the skin and other epithelial surfaces. Involvement of the gastrointestinal tract is common and often presents with crippling anemia as a result of chronic occult blood loss. While surgical extirpation is an option for symptomatic hemangiomas in the intestine, endoscopic therapy is more appealing for lesions found in the stomach and colon. Here we report the successful use of argon plasma coagulation in the management of an adult with multiple hemangiomas in her colon and terminal ileum. |
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