Schafer TW, Binmoeller KF.

Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, California 92134-1005, USA. twschafer@pnh10.med.navy.mil

Various individually tailored endoscopic treatment modalities have been described for bleeding colorectal varices. We describe a case of a 65-year-old man, in whom argon plasma coagulation successfully eradicated ectopic varices at the ileocolonic anastomosis; bleeding could be stopped.