Spider Angioma
Typical cutaneous vascular lesions seen in portal hypertension, found here on the rectal mucosa in a 73 year-old woman with cirrhosis.
60 year-old man with chronic hepatitis C and cirrhosis, undergoing colonoscopy for a personal history of colon polyps. Several vascular lesions consistent with spider angiomata were seen in the ascending colon and sigmoid colon.
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