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Year :2013
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Month :
March-April
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Volume :
2
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Issue :
1
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Page :
13 - 15
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Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome - A Rare Cause of Anemia in Children
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Correspondence Address :
Ashok V. Badaka li, B.C. Yelamali, Meenakshi. A. Badakali,
Dr. Ashok V. Badakali,
Professor, in Pediatrics
B-6, Staff Qtrs., S.N.Medical College
Campus, Navanagar, Bagalkot- 587 102
(Karnataka) India.
Phone: 09880227403
E-mail: ashok_diya@yahoo.com
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Introduction: A 10 year old boy presented with generalized weakness and progressive pallor requiring multiple blood transfusions. The skin demonstrated multiple raised, bluish-black lesions over extremities, trunk and oral cavity. He also suffered from several episodes of maelena & upper GI bleeding, chronic anemia and growth retardation. The endoscopic examination of GIT revealed multiple bluish black, sessile, venous malformation of various sizes. A diagnosis of Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome was made which is a rare disease characterized by distinctive cutaneous and gastrointestinal venous malformation causing massive or occult gastrointestinal hemorrhage and iron deficiency anemia.
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