| IMAGES IN VASCULAR SURGERY |
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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 109-111 |
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Rare Cause of Colostomy Bleeding: A Parastomal Pseudoaneurysm
Vijay Thakore, Jayesh Patel, Sumit Kapadia
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Angio Care Vins Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Jayesh Patel
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Angio Care Vins Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0972-0820.186724
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Patient diagnosed with rectal cancer underwent low anterior resection with protective sigmoid colostomy. He developed intractable bleeding from colostomy site on 10th post-op day. He went into haemorrhagic shock, resuscitated with massive blood transfusion. Emergent CT angio of abdomen showed a well defined, bilobed, fusiform dilated sac with smooth homogenous contrast opacification seen in the operative stomal site with a small feeding artery arising from left iliac artery? possibly an aneurysmal sac with feeding artery. The patient was successfully treated with an endovascular approach. |
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