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BLEEDING ANGIODYSPLASIA OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
Author(s) -
Lau W. Y.,
Chu K. W.,
Yuen W. K.,
Poon G. P.,
Li A. K. C.
Publication year - 1992
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.1445-2197.1992.tb07201.x
Subject(s) - medicine , angiodysplasia , gastrointestinal tract , gastrointestinal bleeding , general surgery , gastroenterology
Bleeding angiodysplasia of the gastrointestinal tract poses frustrating challenges to clinicians because these minute vascular lesions are difficult to diagnose pre‐operatively and to locate intra‐operatively. During the past 12 years, 24 patients were treated for histopathologically confirmed bleeding angiodysplasia of the gastrointestinal tract. Pre‐operative investigations and intra‐operative localization followed a fixed protocol for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin. The median follow‐up of these 24 patients was 51 months and the results of treatment for 22 patients were excellent. Two patients had recurrent bleeding but investigations failed to determine the bleeding source.