The clinical and pathological aspects of digestive tract bleeding caused by angiodeformity of the bile duct:report of 21 cases / 中国普通外科杂志

From 1989 to Apr. 1997, 21 patients were admitted for gastrointestinal bleeding caused by binary angiodeformity. Diagnosis was made in 16 out of 18 undergoing selective celiac angiography with the occuracy rate of 88. 9%. Endoscopy found the deformity in 6 out of 14 (42. 8%). Bleeding stopped in 9 of 11 treated conservatively. Surgery was successful in all 9 cases,and endoscopic cautery successfully stopped the bleeding in the remaining one. The authors came to the conclusion that selective celiac angiography was most useful for the diagnosis. Drug therapy and endoscopic cautery effect only temporary hematostasis.