Intraabdominal Variceal Bleeding |
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| Authors: | Karim A. Fawaz M.D. John M. Kellum M.D. Ralph A. Deterling M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Surgery, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Abstract: | A patient with known liver cirrhosis, but no previous variceal bleeding, presented with sudden abdominal pain and distention, hypotension, and bloody ascitic fluid. At exploration, he was found to be bleeding from varices in the gastrohepatic omentum and perisplenic area. Pathology of the liver showed cirrhosis and metastatic undifferentiated carcinoma. |
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