Leiomyoma of the Jejunum

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MASSIVE hemorrhage into the gastrointestinal tract is usually associated with a penetrating ulcer of the posterior wall of the duodenum. Serious massive hemorrhage, however, occasionally occurs with the less frequent benign leiomyoma and malignant leiomyosarcoma of the stomach and small intestine. In the case of leiomyoma of the jejunum with massive enterorrhagia and melena reported below, the preoperative diagnosis was bleeding duodenal ulcer.Leiomyoma of the small intestine is rare. Smith,1 in 1937, in a review of the literature, was able to collect 513 cases of leiomyomas of the gastrointestinal tract. Of these, 50 occurred in the esophagus, 321 in . . .

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