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Query: UMLS:C1510475 (diverticular disease)
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The results of 65 consecutive cases of Hartmann's procedure carried out between 1982/1993 inclusive, were reviewed. There were 41 emergency procedures including 27 cases with complicated carcinoma and 24 elective procedures including 20 with carcinoma, 3 with diverticular disease and one with perirectal haemangioma. Postoperative complications occurred in 25 (38.5%) patients, including 13 (19%) with wound infection. Seven patients had to be reoperated because of intraperitoneal abscess (3 cases) or wound dehiscence (4 cases). There were five (7.7%) postoperative deaths. The mean hospital stay of operation survivors was 16 days (range 8-54). Intestinal continuity has been reestablished in 13 (81.2%) of 16 survivors in the benign disease group and in 4.5% of patients of the malignant group. The mean time to of restoration of continuity was 240 days (range 40-630) after the primary procedure. No one died after these procedures. In five (31.2%) patients postoperative complications were observed: anastomotic leak (2 cases) and wound infection (3 cases). All complications were treated conservatively.
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PMID:Hartmann procedure: place in surgery and what after? 774 25

Lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage accounts for approximately 20% of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The most common causes of lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in adults are diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, benign anorectal diseases, intestinal neoplasias, coagulopathies and arterio-venous malformations. Hemangiomas of gastrointestinal tract are rare. Mesenteric hemangiomas are also extremely rare.We present a 25-year-old female who was admitted to the emergency room with recurrent lower gastrointestinal bleeding. An intraluminal bleeding mass inside the small intestinal segment was detected during explorative laparotomy as the cause of the recurrent lower gastrointestinal bleeding. After partial resection of small bowel segment, the histopathologic examination revealed a cavernous hemagioma of mesenteric origin.Although rare, gastrointestinal hemangioma should be thought in differential diagnosis as a cause of recurrent lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
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PMID:A rare cause of recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding: mesenteric hemangioma. 1917 25