Watermelon colon: Case report and review

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 160-162

  Tan, Seok Liang ^a   Huang, Wu Shiung ^a   Lin, Jui Wei ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; LOPERAMIDE; POLYCARBOPHIL CALCIUM; WARFARIN; ACRYLIC ACID RESIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; CASE REPORT; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; CECUM; COLON DISEASE; DRUG COMBINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACRYLIC RESINS; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CECUM; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LOPERAMIDE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0642284497     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Jabbari M, Cherry R, Lough JO, Daly DS, Kinnear DG, Goresky CA. Gastric antral vascular ectasia: the watermelon stomach. Gastroenterology 1984;87:1165-70.
2. Steinberg J, Brandt LJ. The watermelon rectum. Gastrointest Endosc 1989;35:340-1.
3. Binmoeller KF, Lieberman DA. The watermelon cecum. Gastrointest Endosc 1991;37:192-3.
4. Abramson DA. Hematochezia associated with the watermelon rectum [letter]. Gastrointest Endosc 1992;38:97.
5. Bak YT, Kwon OS, Kim JY, Kim JS, Kim JH, Won NH. Protein-losing enteropathy with an endoscopic feature of "the watermelon colon." Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1999;11:565-7.
6. Singh D, Shill M, Kaur H. The watermelon rectum. J Clin Gastroenterol 2001;33:164-6.
7. Rider JA, Klotz AP, Kirsner JB. Gastritis with veno-capillary ectasia as a source of massive gastric hemorrhage. Gastroenterology 1953;24:118-23.
8. Gretz JE, Achem SR. The watermelon stomach: clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment. Am J Gastroenterol 1998;93:890-5.
9. Gilliam JH III, Geisinger KR, Wu WC, Weidner N, Richter JE. Endoscopic biopsy is diagnostic in gastric antral vascular ectasia. Dig Dis Sci 1989;34:885-8.
10. Suit PF, Petras RE, Bauer TW, Petrini JL. Gastric antral vascular ectasia. A histologic and morphometric study of "the watermelon stomach." Am J Surg Pathol 1987;11:750-7.
11. DU Boulay C, Fairbrother J, Isaacson PG. Mucosal prolapse syndrome: a unifying concept for solitary ulcer syndrome and related disorders. J Clin Pathol 1983;36:1264-8.