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Department of General Surgery Unit IV, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India.
Persistent and torrential bleeding from presacral veins is an uncommon complication during rectal resection. Control of bleeding is often difficult. We report an effective technique for controlling sacral bleeding using endoscopic helical tackers applied over pledgets of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene.
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Acta Chir Belg
June 2002
Department of Gastrointestinal and Minimal Access Surgery, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Dieulafoy's lesion is an uncommon cause of gastrointestinal haemorrhage. It may present with massive and life threatening bleed and although more common in the upper gastrointestinal tract, it is being increasingly reported as affecting the lower gastrointestinal tract. Diagnosis is usually achieved during proctoscopic and endoscopic visualization.
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Med J Malaysia
December 2000
Department of Surgery, Penang Adventist Hospital, Penang.
Despite advancements in endoscopy and pharmacology in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease the overall mortality has remained constant at 10% for the past four decades. The aim of this study was to determine the age, gender, racial distribution, incidence and causes of endoscopically diagnosed cases of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding to summarise treatments undertaken and to report their outcome. A prospective study of UGI bleeding in 128 patients was performed in two surgical wards of Kuala Lumpur Hospital, involving both elective and emergency admissions.
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J Obstet Gynaecol
November 1997
The Northern Regional Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.
A case of torrential rectal bleeding due to a colonic carcinoma is reported. The clinical diagnosis was confirmed by angiography, which showed an abnormal circulatory pattern at the hepatic flexure of the colon. Resection of the tumour controlled the bleeding.
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