Colonic vascular dysplasia

Vascular dysplasia (angiodysplasia, AD) is beginning to be recognized in the colon, and it is now known to be the most common cause of chronic intermittent or acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding in elderly people over 60 years of age, and the most common cause of unexplained gastrointestinal bleeding .

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