Successful wireless capsule endoscopy for a 2.5-year-old child: Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding from mixed, juvenile, capillary hemangioma- angiomatosis of the jejunum

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 539-543

  Kavin, Hymie ^a   Berman, James ^a   Martin, Thomas L ^a   Feldman, Ansley ^a   Forsey Koukol, Kimberly ^a  

^a ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary hemangioma angiomatosis; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Pediatrics; Wireless capsule endoscopy

Indexed keywords

FAMOTIDINE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMANGIOMA; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; JEJUNUM TUMOR; MICROCAPSULE; MULTIPLE CANCER; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANGIOMATOSIS; CAPSULES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY;

EID: 33644849866     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-0710     Document Type: Article

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