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DUODENAL POLYP OR ANEURYSM? POSSIBLE HAZARD OF ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY
Author(s) -
MACDOUGALL C. N.,
CASTLEDEN W. M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb04970.x
Subject(s) - medicine , polypectomy , endoscopy , aneurysm , duodenal diseases , duodenum , gastroenterology , general surgery , surgery , radiology , colonoscopy , cancer , colorectal cancer
Duodenal polyps rarely cause acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage. We report a patient with a pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurysm which presented at endoscopy as a duodenal polyp.