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FLORES DELGADO, Enrique Adrián  y  FLORES MIRANDA, Enrique. Hemangioendothelioma of the small intestine: infrequent cause of high digestive bleeding. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.5, pp. 865-872. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: hemangioendothelioma is an infrequent tumor, especially at intestinal level, mesenchymal nature, unknown cause, very variable clinical signs, highly diverse prognosis and biological behavior. It is classified as an intermediate degree of malignancy tumor, and is characterized by the presence of epithelioid cells. Objective: to present the first case with this affection reported in our country. Clinical case: a 68-year-old patient who had suffered several pictures of high digestive bleeding, given by melena and anemia, studies demonstrated the presence of a tumor at small intestine level, in the surgical act was found the tumor in the duodenojejunal flexure, which was resected and reported as an epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of small intestine. Conclusions: epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of small intestine is a cause of high digestive bleeding that should be investigated when the most frequent causes are not present.

Palabras clave : HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL [surgery]; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHGE.

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