Endoscopic management of blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome in the colon with hemostatic clamp and snare
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Endoscopic management of blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome in the colon with hemostatic clamp and snare.
A 24-year-old woman presented having had soft, blue nodules on the palm of her hand (▶Fig. 1), lower limbs, and feet since birth. The number and size of the lesions had increased a little as she had grown up. She had suffered repeated episodes of intermittent melena or tarry stools since the age of 10 years, which had been accompanied by symptoms of pallor, dizziness, fatigue, and anorexia. In ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-106044