LeQuire MH, Sorge DG, Brantley SD. The middle mesenteric artery: an unusual source for colonic hemorrhage.
J Vasc Interv Radiol 1991;
2:141-5. [PMID:
1799743 DOI:
10.1016/s1051-0443(91)72487-1]
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Abstract
To the authors' knowledge, colonic hemorrhage from anomalous ventral aortic mesenteric arteries has not been described previously. They report a case in which a middle mesenteric artery with unusual vascular distribution supplied a splenic flexure hemorrhage in a 62-year-old man. Although this is a rare anomaly, a thorough understanding of the middle mesenteric artery may have important diagnostic and therapeutic implications.
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