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MASSIVE RECTORRHAGIA MIMICKING POSSIBLE GENITAL HAEMORRHAGE
JASNA ČERKEZ HABEK
; Sveti Duh University Hospital, Croatian Catholic University, Department of Internal Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
DUBRAVKO HABEK
; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
A case is presented of a 76-year-old woman who was initially considered to have massive genital hemorrhage, but exclusion examination and treatment proved it to be massive rectorrhagia. The patient died due to irreversible hemorrhagic shock and rupture of rectal angiodysplasia was proved on autopsy.
Keywords
rectal angiodysplasia; rectorrhagia; genital hemorrhage; hemorrhagic shock
Hrčak ID:
154204
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Publication date:
13.3.2016.
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