Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome: Surgical eradication of gastrointestinal bleeding

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 523-528

  Fishman, Steven J ^a   Smithers, C Jason ^a   Folkman, Judah ^a   Lund, Dennis P ^b   Burrows, Patricia E ^a   Mulliken, John B ^a   Fox, Victor L ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BAND LIGATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUE RUBBER BLEB NEVUS SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL VEIN MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUTURE LIGATION; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN MALFORMATION; WEDGE EXCISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; NEVUS, BLUE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 14544272454     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000154689.85629.93     Document Type: Article

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