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Secondary Lymphangiectasia of the Small Bowel: Utility of Double Balloon Enteroscopy for Diagnosis and Management
Fecha
2008Registro en:
DIGESTIVE DISEASES, v.26, n.4, p.383-386, 2008
0257-2753
10.1159/000177027
Autor
SAFATLE-RIBEIRO, Adriana Vaz
IRIYA, Kiyoshi
COUTO, Decio Sampaio
KAWAGUTI, Fabio Shiguehiss
RETES, Felipe
RIBEIRO JR., Ulysses
SAKAI, Paulo
Institución
Resumen
Sporadic lymphangiectasias are commonly found throughout the small bowel and are considered to be normal. Not uncommonly, lymphangiectasias are pathologic and can lead to mid-gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain and protein-losing enteropathy. Pathologic lymphangiectasias of the small bowel include primary lymphangiectasia, secondary lymphangiectasia and lymphaticovenous malformations. In this report we present three different cases of small bowel lymphangiectasia detected by double balloon enteroscopy. The patients were diagnosed with South American blastomycosis, tuberculosis and primary small bowel lymphangioma. Copyright (C) 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel