Diagnostic imaging of the small bowel in a case of occult gastrointestinal bleeding

Rays. 2003 Oct-Dec;28(4):425-31.

Abstract

A case of a male patient with occult gastrointestinal bleeding and negative gastroscopy and colonoscopy is presented and discussed. Oral small bowel barium follow-through was performed upon the patient request. It documented a jejunal neoformation. The analysis of radiologic findings directed towards a probably extramucosal origin. Subsequent CT evaluation confirmed a neoformation inseparable from a jejunal loop with inhomogeneous contrast enhancement, therefore of suspected malignant nature. The histological examination on the surgical specimen documented the presence of a stromal tumor of indeterminate malignancy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Stromal Cells
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed