Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.
2008 Feb;36(2):97-101.
A Case of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor Diagnosed with Double-balloon Enteroscopy
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- 1Institute for Digestive Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. jokim@hosp.sch.ac.kr
Abstract
- Gastrointestinal bleeding from an unknown origin occurs in 2~10% of patients with a small bowel lesion. The recent developments in capsule endoscopy and double- balloon enteroscopy have helped improve the accuracy of a diagnosis of small bowel bleeding. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are most often observed in the lungs of young adults but have rarely been reported in conjunction with a small bowel bleeding episode. We report a case of a bleeding inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in the jejunum that had been diagnosed as non specific jejunal bleeding by capsule endoscopy and confirmed by double- balloon enteroscopy.
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