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The middle mesenteric artery: an unusual source for colonic hemorrhage
M H LeQuire1, D G Sorge, S D Brantley
1Department of Radiology, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Tex.
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
To the authors' knowledge, colonic hemorrhage from anomalous ventral aortic mesenteric arteries has not been described previously. They report a case in which a middle mesenteric artery with unusual vascular distribution supplied a splenic flexure hemorrhage in a 62-year-old man. Although this is a rare anomaly, a thorough understanding of the middle mesenteric artery may have important diagnostic and therapeutic implications.