So a surgeon, for example, would know where along the small intestine to operate to repair or remove a source of bleeding, a common and often vexing gastrointestinal problem.
The diagnosis was Meckel's diverticulum as the source of bleeding.
Prior medical evaluation including upper and lower endoscopy revealed no identifiable source of bleeding.
However, ENT has not commonly been reported as a source of bleeding in this patient population.
Neither upper gastrointestinal endoscopy nor colonoscopy detected the source of bleeding from ulceration and neoplastic lesion.
A tortuous, dilated vessel was found to be the source of bleeding and forming pseudoaneurysm (Fig. 5a).
Bleeding was observed on the surface of the erosion (c, asterisk), which was considered to be the source of bleeding.
The r-EFAST extends beyond the EFAST for detecting source of bleeding in the retroperitoneum, not contemplated in the original EFAST.
If arterial or severe venous bleeding had been present, it would have been of primary importance to secure the airway and then confront the source of bleeding.
If there were consecutive days with the same primary source of bleeding as preceding days, these were considered the same bleeding event.
Apart from self-limited cancellous bone bleeding from the iliac wing fracture, pan-CT and pelvic angiography ruled out intrathoracic, abdominal, and pelvic source of bleeding.
