Spontaneous nontraumatic hemoperitoneum due to a bleeding arteriovenous malformation on the serosal surface of the transverse colon: A case report

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 911-912

  Nissman, Steven A ^a   Mann, Barry D ^b   Vitvitsky, Eugene V ^c   Fyfe, Billie S ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL ORGAN RUPTURE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMOPERITONEUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; MUCOSA; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEROSA; SUBMUCOSA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSVERSE COLON; COLON; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; COLON; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; SEROUS MEMBRANE;

EID: 0036780079     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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