Angiodysplasia of the colon and Crohn's disease. a study with vascular resin casts
Arenas Ricart, J.; Cremades Mira, A.; Almenar del Poyo, L.; Flor Civera, B.; Ruiz del Castillo, J.; Ferrando Cucarella, J.; Smith Agreda, V.; Llombart Bosch, A.; Gómez-Ferrer Bayo, F.
Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva 78(3): 171-174
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 1130-0108 PMID: 2278744 Document Number: 347843
All the previous studies which have associated arteriovenous malformations of the colon with chronic inflammatory disease have always been performed on a diseased intestine. This study, which uses the intravascular injection of resin, shows morphological evidence that angiodysplasia of the colon and intestinal inflammatory disease can coexist independently. This fact suggests that in cases of severe hemorrhage in a patient with inflammatory disease of the small intestine, it cannot simply be assumed that it originates in the macroscopically abnormal intestine, and that angiographic examination is a wise measure to rule out the possibility of arteriovenous malformations in the "normal" intestine.