[Non-small bowel lesions detected with capsule endoscopy in patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding]. / Detección de lesiones fuera del intestino delgado con cápsula endoscópica en pacientes con hemorragia digestiva oculta.

Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding accounts for approximately 5-10% of patients presenting with gastrointestinal haemorrhage. The majority of lesions responsible were found to be located in the small bowel. Currently, capsule en-doscopy is the first-line tool to investigate the small bowel as it is a non-invasive, feasible and simple procedure. Howe-ver, capsule endoscopy sometimes identifies the source of bleeding outside the small bowel and within the reach of conventional endoscopy. We present the case of a 46 year-old man with few prior negative endoscopic procedures and iron-deficiency anaemia due to gastric GIST.

Detección de lesiones fuera del intestino delgado con cápsula endoscópica en pacientes con hemorragia digestiva oculta / Non-small bowel lesions detected with capsule endoscopy in patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

La hemorragia digestiva de origen oscuro constituye el 5-10% del total de hemorragias digestivas, siendo el intestino delgado la localización más frecuente. Por su sencillez y fiabilidad la enteroscopia con cápsula es la técnica de elección tras un primer estudio endoscópico negativo (gastroscopia e ileo-colonoscopia). Sin embargo, en ocasiones, el origen del sangrado no se identifica en el interior de éste, sino fuera y al alcance de la endoscopia convencional (esófago, estómago o colon). Presentamos el caso de un paciente de 46 años con anemia ferropénica y varios estudios endoscópicos previos negativos a quien se detectó un tumor gástrico (GIST) durante una enteroscopia con cápsula. El diagnóstico definitivo se obtuvo tras el estudio histológico de la pieza quirúrgica (AU)

Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding accounts for approximately 5-10% of patients presenting with gastrointestinal haemorrhage. The majority of lesions responsible were found to be located in the small bowel. Currently, capsule endoscopy is the first-line tool to investigate the small bowel as it is a non-invasive, feasible and simple procedure. However, capsule endoscopy sometimes identifies the source of bleeding outside the small bowel and within the reach of conventional endoscopy. We present the case of a 46 year-old man with few prior negative endoscopic procedures and iron-deficiency anaemia due to gastric GIST (AU)

[Analysis of possible influence of synchronous neoplastic lesions on prognosis of resected colorectal cancer]. / Análisis de la posible influencia de las lesiones sincrónicas en el pronóstico del cáncer colorrectal resecado.

AIM: To analyze the relationship between synchronous lesions in patients with colorectal cancer and their prognostic value. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We have retrospectively reviewed 369 patients with resected colorectal cancer. We compared the rate of apparently curative surgery, progression and tumoral relapse, development of extracolonic cancer and mortality between patients with and without synchronous cancer. Afterwards, we analyzed the same parameters in colorectal cancer with and without synchronous adenomas. Finally, we repeated the analysis after stratification of cancers in 2 groups according to pTNM staging: 0-I-II stage vs III-IV. RESULTS: We found synchronous adenomas in 54.7% of our patients and synchronous cancers in 7.6%. Follow-up period of groups with and without synchronous lesions were: 70.8 +/- 22.9 and 67.2 +/- 24.5 months (p = 0.55) respectively. Synchronous cancers showed higher mortality: 35.7 vs. 14.4%: p = 0.006; OR = 3.31 (1.33-8.13), higher tumoral progression : 39.3 vs. 19.1%: p = 0.011; OR = 2.75 (1.14-6.56) and higher relapse rate: 10.7 vs. 3.5%: p = 0.096. Stratifying according to stage, patients with stage 0-I-II and synchronous cancer showed worse prognosis: mortality = 27.7 vs. 8.1%, p = 0.019; OR = 4.45 (1.2-15.1), tumoral progression = 27.8 vs. 8.5%, p = 0.02; OR = 4.12 (1.14-14.19), and extracolonic cancer = 16.7 vs. 6.4% p = 0.095. There were no statistical differences between cases with and without synchronous adenomas. CONCLUSIONS: Synchronous cancers showed worse prognosis after resection, with higher rate of tumoral progression and mortality. This difference is focused on the cases diagnosed in stage 0-I-II, not being found in III-IV. The presence of synchronous adenomas doesn't influence prognosis.