Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult
Diverticular bleeding of the small bowel is rare and occurs primarily in adults aged more than 60 years. In younger adults, Meckel’s diverticulum, a true diverticulum that congenitally occurs in the distal ileum, is the most common cause of diverticular bleeding of the small bowel. Unlike Meckel’s d...
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| author | Ji-Yung Lee Jae-Young Jang Min-Je Kim Tae-In Lee Jung-Wook Kim Young-Woon Chang |
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| description | Diverticular bleeding of the small bowel is rare and occurs primarily in adults aged more than 60 years. In younger adults, Meckel’s diverticulum, a true diverticulum that congenitally occurs in the distal ileum, is the most common cause of diverticular bleeding of the small bowel. Unlike Meckel’s diverticula, other kinds of small bowel diverticula are not congenital and their incidence is related to age. Furthermore, congenital true diverticular bleeding of the jejunum in adults is very rare. We report the case of a 24-year-old man with subepithelial tumor-like lesion accompanied with obscure overt gastrointestinal bleeding. This lesion was initially suspected to be a subepithelial tumor based on radiologic tests and capsule endoscopy. He was finally diagnosed with a congenital true diverticulum in the jejunum with the appearance of a Meckel’s diverticulum after surgical resection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a7c8e9e4397246ad9c3440d5aa01bb172023-10-02T05:23:16ZengKorean Society of Gastrointestinal EndoscopyClinical Endoscopy2234-24002234-24432017-09-0150549549910.5946/ce.2016.1547001Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young AdultJi-Yung Lee0Jae-Young Jang1Min-Je Kim2Tae-In Lee3Jung-Wook Kim4Young-Woon Chang5 Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Department of medicine, Graduate school, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Department of medicine, Graduate school, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KoreaDiverticular bleeding of the small bowel is rare and occurs primarily in adults aged more than 60 years. In younger adults, Meckel’s diverticulum, a true diverticulum that congenitally occurs in the distal ileum, is the most common cause of diverticular bleeding of the small bowel. Unlike Meckel’s diverticula, other kinds of small bowel diverticula are not congenital and their incidence is related to age. Furthermore, congenital true diverticular bleeding of the jejunum in adults is very rare. We report the case of a 24-year-old man with subepithelial tumor-like lesion accompanied with obscure overt gastrointestinal bleeding. This lesion was initially suspected to be a subepithelial tumor based on radiologic tests and capsule endoscopy. He was finally diagnosed with a congenital true diverticulum in the jejunum with the appearance of a Meckel’s diverticulum after surgical resection.http://www.e-ce.org/upload/pdf/ce-2016-154.pdfGastrointestinal hemorrhageMeckel diverticulumNeoplasms, glandular and epithelialJejunum |
| spellingShingle | Ji-Yung Lee Jae-Young Jang Min-Je Kim Tae-In Lee Jung-Wook Kim Young-Woon Chang Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult Clinical Endoscopy Gastrointestinal hemorrhage Meckel diverticulum Neoplasms, glandular and epithelial Jejunum |
| title | Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult |
| title_full | Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult |
| title_fullStr | Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult |
| title_full_unstemmed | Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult |
| title_short | Congenital Jejunal Diverticular Bleeding in a Young Adult |
| title_sort | congenital jejunal diverticular bleeding in a young adult |
| topic | Gastrointestinal hemorrhage Meckel diverticulum Neoplasms, glandular and epithelial Jejunum |
| url | http://www.e-ce.org/upload/pdf/ce-2016-154.pdf |
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