2016 Volume 52 Issue 5 Pages 1108-1113
Colon venous malformation is rare and it is even rarer in children. Here, we report a pediatric case of this disease that developed with abdominal pain and bloody discharge as the chief complaints. The patient was a girl aged 10 years and 11 months. She was previously healthy. However, she complained of abdominal pain and bloody discharge after a fall, and she was admitted to a nearby hospital. Abdominal CT showed a huge mass in her abdominal cavity. She was brought to our hospital for examination and treatment. She was diagnosed as having right colon venous malformation on the basis of the findings of abdominal echo, CT, MRI and enema contrast, and had surgery. Intraoperative findings showed a dark red multilocular small cystic mass in the bowel wall toward the ascending colon from her cecum. The mass was resected in conjunction with the cecum and ascending colon. The mass was diagnosed as pathologically venous malformation. When examining children with bloody discharge, it is important to also consider this disease.
