Abstract
We report two cirrhotic patients who succumbed to massive rectal bleeding. The source of this hemorrhage remained undiscovered clinically despite endoscopy, a bleeding scan, and celiac angiogram in one patient. Autopsy revealed that the source of the bleeding was rectal varices in both cases.
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Waxman, J.S., Tarkin, N., Dave, P. et al. Fatal hemorrhage from rectal varices. Dis Colon Rectum 27, 749–750 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02554608
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