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Case Reports
. 2021 Sep 28;13(9):e18350.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.18350. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image

Christopher F Brewer  1 , Yayha Al Abed  2
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Diverticular Bleeding: A Clinical Image

Christopher F Brewer et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

A man in his 40's was admitted to the general surgery ward with multiple episodes of large amounts of painless bright red per rectal (PR) bleeding and passage of clots. Urgent outpatient colonoscopy revealed a diverticulum which was associated with a wide diameter blood vessel originating from its base which was not actively bleeding. The clinical picture presented by the colonoscopy is one of the first to clearly identify large caliber blood vessels emerging from a colonic diverticulum.

Keywords: clinical image; colonoscopy; diverticulosis; diverticulum; pr bleeding.

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Figure 1. Diverticulum with juxtaposed blood vessels identified on colonoscopy (blue arrow)
Diverticulum with juxtaposed blood vessels identified on colonoscopy.
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