Blue Rubber-Bleb Nevus Syndrome

　Blue rubber-bleb nevus syndrome^1）の名はわが国ではまだ耳新らしく，わずかに斎藤ら^2）の1例が知られているだけである．われわれはさいきん本症の1例を観察した．

The second case of this disease in Japan in a 17-year-old boy was reported, who had many angiomas on the skin and gastrointestinal tract.

He has been suffering from severe anemia since his childhood, and it was proved that the irondeficiency anemia was clue to continuous bleeding from the angiomas on the gastrointestinal tract.The anemia was improved slightly by administration of an iron preparation.