Small intestinal lymphangioma is a rare benign tumor of the lymphatic system. Lymphangiomas account for 6% of small intestinal tumours seen in children but area smaller percentage, approximately 1.4–2.4% in adults.Here we describe the first case of small intestinal lymphangioma with bleeding in a 57-year-old woman. She presented with persistent gastrointestinal bleeding and Upper and lower endo...

engraftment by donor lymphocytes in an immunologically compromised host can result in donor t-cell activation against host major histocompatibility complex antigens, with resultant gvhd. the acute form of gvhd (agvhd) is characterized by erythroderma, cholestatic hepatitis, and enteritis. the intestinal symptoms of agvhd include crampy abdominal pain and watery diarrhea, often with blood. the c...

BACKGROUND This study describes the burden of bleeding oesophageal varices at the main tertiary referral centre in Accra. DESIGN Retrospective design to describe the endoscopic spectrum and review mortality data following acute upper gastro-intestinal bleeding at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Endoscopic data was reviewed in the Endoscopy Unit between 2007 and 2010. Mortality data was collat...

A 67-year-old woman with a 15-year history of intestinal scleroderma presented with recurrent melena. Upper endoscopies revealed a healing, non-bleeding, large gastric ulcer. After the third bleed, angiography demonstrated bleeding from a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm adjacent to the gastric ulcer. Scleroderma patients are at risk of bleeding from esophagitis or gastric arteriovenous malformati...

Introduction: Small-bowel massive bleeding presents a complex diagnostic and therapeutic problem. Angiography can be used for localization and embolization of the overt gastrointestinal bleeding site. Because of the complex anastomotic network of blood vessels supplying the small intestine, precise identification is complicated and surgical resection of the bleeding site is difficult. We descri...