Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding from the Internal Iliac Artery: Angiographic Demonstration of an Iliac Arteriocolic Fistula

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 27 - Trang 262-263 - 2004
Adam M. Gittleman1, Sidney Glanz1, Man Hon1, A. Orlando Ortiz1, Douglas S. Katz1
1Department of Radiology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA

Tóm tắt

A rare source of potentially massive lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in women is advanced gynecologic malignancy. Such patients can develop gastrointestinal hemorrhage with or without prior pelvic irradiation, due to arteriocolic fistulas. Angiography permits the correct diagnosis and subsequent embolotherapy.

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