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Sagar Khadanga1, Dharmendra Dugar2, Ujjawal Khurana3
1Department of Medicine, AIIMS Bhopal, Bhopal, India.
Abstract:
A middle-aged woman presented in shock with bleeding per rectum for 2 days without any significant past medical or surgical illness. Abdominal sonography, oesophagogastroduodenoscopy and sigmoidocolonoscopy were unremarkable. Despite 6 units of blood transfusion, 3000 mL of plasma expanders and ionotropes, the arterial pressure gradually decreased. We had no choice but to undergo life-threatening yet possibly life saving laparotomy. We found a 1×1 cm ileal bleeding mucosal polyp about 20 cm away from the ileocaecal junction. We resected and anastomosed end to end. Perioperatively, the patient was transfused with another 4 units of blood product. Immunohistopathology revealed a large number of CD34 positive spindle cells and eosinophils with extensive thick-walled capillaries compatible with inflammatory fibroid polyp. This case of Vanek's tumour is reported for its atypical site, which presented as massive obscure gastrointestinal haemorrhage without any prior warning signs.
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