Abstract
A 64 year-old woman with melena for over 6 months, had undergone an evaluation including upper gastrointestinal endocopy and totalcolonoscopy that failed to identify the bleeding focus. She then underwent computed tomography, video capsule endoscopy (CE) and double balloon endoscopy (DBE), that revealed a bleeding polypoid lesion in the upper jejunum. A partial resection of the jejunum was performed.
Histopathologic findings revealed the tumor was a lymphangioma.
Lymphangiomas are benign tumors which may cause gastrointestinal bleeding. Recently, new examination modalities for the small bowel such as CE and DBE have become available and widespread, and are expected to contribute to the accurate diagnosis of small intestinal lesions particularly with bleeding like the lymphangioma in this case.
