Absent inferior mesenteric vein as a cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding: The first reported case in the literature

• Hoofdauteurs: Waleed O. Gibreel (Auteur), Ishrat I. Mansuri (Auteur), Rayna M. Grothe (Auteur), Abdalla E. Zarroug (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: Elsevier, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Onderwerpen: article
• Online toegang: Connect to this object online.

To date, absent inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) has not been reported in the literature as a cause of or being associated with lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. We describe a case of 13 year-old girl who presented with hematochezia and was subsequently found to have widespread colonic varices inv...