ABSTRACT
The lesions responsible for low digestive hemorrhage [LDH] are located at the lower part of the angle of Treitz. They are of origin colic in 90% of the cases. The lesions of hail are less frequent, with more difficult diagnosis and management. We report 2 observations of rare causes of LDH 47 and 44 years old respectively admitted both because of an anaemia with low digestive hemorrhage related to a stromal jejunal tumor in the first case and on a cavernous hemangioma of hail in the other case. The diagnosis is confirmed by the histologic study of the exeresis product
ABSTRACT
The authors report the case of a patient operated on 1999 because of a paraganglioma of the Zukerkandl's organ. The diagnosis of the paraganglioma has been based on the analysis of the resected piece. Thirty-one months later, she developed medullar compression. The diagnosis of the malignant paraganglioma is confirmed in front of the presence on cromaffin tissue at the level of the affected vertebra. This case illustrates the diagnostic difficulty of this type of tumour before surgery as well as to establish immediate prognosis of this affection. The authors emphasise in this occasion the necessity of a prolonged supervision in order to screen the superview of recurrence or metastases in this localisation known to be malignant in more than the half of the cases