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Tech Coloproctol
; 9(1): 49-51, 2005 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15868500
ABSTRACT
A patient with a metastatic fixed low rectal carcinoma presented severe rectal bleeding requiring massive transfusion over with a 36-hour period. Bleeding was controlled with the instillation of a 4% intrarectal formalin solution permitting the completion of a course of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. This technique has been reserved for intractable transfusion-dependent radiation proctitis and is presented as a primary alternative in severe rectal bleeding from inoperable rectal cancer.