TY  - JOUR
A1  - Albert, Jörg Gerhard
A1  - Lubomierski, Nikolaus
T1  - Unidentified cause of anemia: capsule endoscopy finding outside of the small bowel
T2  - Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy
N2  - Small bowel endoscopy is indicated for patients with an unidentified bleeding site in esophagogastroduodenoscopy and ileocolonoscopy and symptoms of intestinal blood loss or unexplained anemia. In approximately two-thirds of these cases, capsule endoscopy (CE) detects a lesion within the small bowel that explains the patient's symptoms. In few cases, though, lesions outside of the small bowel might be revealed by CE. Therefore, attention to all intestines that are visualized by CE might be necessary not to overlook bleeding sites that had not been discovered by prior flexible endoscopy.
Here the case of a 71-year-old male patient with unexplained anemia is presented by the authors. Small-bowel CE revealed minor bleeding from a neoplastic mass in the cecum. The final diagnosis of an adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon was established after the patient underwent a right hemicolectomy. This article is part of an expert video encyclopedia.
KW  - Capsule endoscopy
KW  - Colonoscopy
KW  - Colorectal cancer
KW  - Endoscopy
KW  - Lymphangiectasia
KW  - Lymphectasia
KW  - Small bowel
KW  - Video
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/76860
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-768603
SN  - 2212-0971
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SP  - 419
EP  - 420
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -