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Lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage is defmed as bleeding distal to the ligament of Treitz, and therefore includes the small bowel. In chil-dren and adolescents, the differential diagnosis includes juvenile pol-yps, inflammatory bowel disease, intussusception, and Meckel’s diver-ticulum. In adults, the common causes include angiodysplasia, diverticulosis, neoplasm, inflammatory bowel disease, and anorectal sources such as hemorrhoids and fissures.
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Saclarides, T.J. (1998). Lower Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage. In: Millikan, K.W., Saclarides, T.J. (eds) Common Surgical Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2945-0_52
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