Open AccessOccult enterorrhagia from jejunal duplication causing diagnostic dilemma in an infant
Author(s) -
Kamalesh Pal,
Aladeddin Al-Dajani,
D. K. Mitra
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.59355
Subject(s) - occult , medicine , gene duplication , concomitant , cyst , presentation (obstetrics) , pediatrics , general surgery , pathology , surgery , biochemistry , chemistry , alternative medicine , gene
Occult enterorrhagia in infancy may become obscured and lead to diagnostic dilemma. Abnormal findings on investigative modalities, if not properly interpreted and clinically correlated, might complicate the matter leading to missed diagnosis and chronic anaemia. Occult enterorrhagia is an uncommon presentation of intestinal duplications. We describe the intriguing case of chronic anaemia in an infant, where concomitant endoscopic findings misled the diagnosis of jejunal duplication cyst as the cause of enterorrhagia.