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This 12-year-old boy had a long history of bluish, rubbery, nipple-like, cutaneous masses along with recurrent intestinalbleeding.

36.blue rubber-bleb nevus syndrome

A rare, sometimes familial, disorder characterized by a variety of cutaneous vascular malformations in association with visceralhemangiomas. The hemangiomas chiefly affect the gut (image below), are fragile, and bleed easily.

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Source:  OpenStax, Images of memorable cases: 50 years at the bedside. OpenStax CNX. Dec 08, 2008 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10449/1.7
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