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Case Reports
. 2011 Oct 4:2011:bcr0820114672.
doi: 10.1136/bcr.08.2011.4672.

Bleeding small bowel cavernous haemangioma following blunt trauma to the abdomen presenting as subacute intestinal obstruction in a child

Dayang Anita Abdul Aziz  1 , Yugasaravanan Khandasamy, Riana Pauline Tamba, Faizah Mohd Zaki
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Case Reports

Bleeding small bowel cavernous haemangioma following blunt trauma to the abdomen presenting as subacute intestinal obstruction in a child

Dayang Anita Abdul Aziz et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

The authors report a case of a 6-year-old girl who developed subacute intestinal obstruction after a trivial blunt trauma to her abdomen. Her normal vital signs masked the presence of intestinal bleeding. An incidental finding at surgery of a haematomatous polypoid vascular growth of the ileum was subsequently confirmed to be cavernous haemangioma of the small bowel. Surgical resection was curative in this patient.

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Figure 1
Ultrasound abdomen.
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The intraoperative picture of bleeding small bowel cavernous haemangioma.
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