Abstract
Vascular lesions in the small bowel with bleeding complications are usually difficult
to diagnose and localize preoperatively. With the increased use of either capsule
endoscopy or enteroscopy, there have been more reports of preoperative diagnosis from
such lesions. The authors report a rare case of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
from a combined hemangioma and angiodysplasia identified by double-balloon enteroscopy.
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of such combined lesions.
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Publication history
Published online: April 12, 2010
Received in revised form:
November 13,
2009
Received:
August 17,
2009
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© 2010 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
