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Jejunal lymphangioma. An unusual cause of chronic gastrointestinal bleeding
E S Barquist1, S K Apple, D M Jensen
1Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
We discuss a case of lymphangioma of the small bowel that caused chronic anemia secondary to gastrointestinal blood loss. We believe that this is the first jejunal lymphangioma to be diagnosed by Sonde endoscopy. There are several other lymphatic abnormalities of the small intestine that are briefly discussed. In the Western literature, anemia or chronic gastrointestinal blood loss is an unusual presentation of lymphangioma of the small bowel.