Open AccessSangrado digestivo por divertículos yeyunales: reporte de un caso y revisión de la literatura
Author(s) -
Jorge Cuauhtémoc Blake-Siemsen,
Marisol Kortright-Farías,
Dante Rafael Casale-Menier,
Jesús Gámez-Araujo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cirugía y cirujanos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.139
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2444-054X
pISSN - 0009-7411
DOI - 10.1016/j.circir.2016.11.011
Subject(s) - medicine , gynecology , gastrointestinal bleeding , surgery
Bleeding from the small bowel is a rare pathology that represents 5-10% of gastrointestinal bleeding; 0.06% to 5% of cases are due to the presence of diverticula of the small intestine. The majority of diverticula are asymptomatic and present symptoms when there is a complication.
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