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Postgrad Med J 2001;77:783-784 doi:10.1136/pmj.77.914.783
  • Case report

Adult small bowel Dieulafoy lesion

  1. A Fox,
  2. K Ravi,
  3. P C Leeder,
  4. B J Britton,
  5. B F Warren
  1. Department of Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital Headington, Oxford, UK
  1. Dr Andreas Fox, Department of Surgery, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UKandreasfox{at}hotmail.com
  • Received 18 May 2001
  • Accepted 27 July 2001

Abstract

A 47 year old woman presented with melaena and haemodynamic instability. Preliminary investigations failed to locate the source of bleeding. At laparotomy an arteriovenous malformation was identified in the distal ileum. Histology revealed this to be of the Dieulafoy type. This is the first published case of a histologically proved ileal Dieulafoy lesion in an adult.

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