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A Rare Cause of Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Giant Diffuse and Cavernous Intestinal Mesentery Hemangioma in an Adult

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  1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Chengdu 363 Hospital, No. 108, DaoSangShu Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan Province, China

    Changbing Peng, Haolin Chen & Wenzhong Li

  2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan Province, China

    Rui Xu & Wen Zhuang

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Peng, C., Chen, H., Li, W. et al. A Rare Cause of Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Giant Diffuse and Cavernous Intestinal Mesentery Hemangioma in an Adult. Dig Dis Sci 61, 3363–3365 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-016-4259-2

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