Fatal hemorrhage from rectal varices

1 November 1984

journal article
case report
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Vol. 27 (11) , 749-750
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02554608

Abstract

We report two cirrhotic patients who succumbed to massive rectal bleeding. The source of this hemorrhage remained undiscovered clinically despite endoscopy, a bleeding scan, and celiac angiogram in one patient. Autopsy revealed that the source of the bleeding was rectal varices in both cases.

Keywords

CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS
RECTAL VARICES
MASSIVE RECTAL
AUTOPSY REVEALED
CELIAC ANGIOGRAM
TWO CIRRHOTIC
HEMORRHAGE REMAINED

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