Unlabelled: Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is defined as any bleeding localized distally to Treitz's ligament. The massive bleeding from the appendix is extremely rare and only 21 cases described in the English literature.
Case Presentation: We present a 61-years-old patient with decompensated liver cirrhosis and bleeding from esophageal varices.
Morgagni-Larey diaphragmatic hernias are very rare. The defect of diaphragm is usually small and the disease passes asymptomatically. If complaints are present and surgical treatment is needed, two types of operative access could be performed--thoracic and abdominal.
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