Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome Presenting as Anemia, Hemorrhage, and Hemangiomas: A Rare Case Report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare disorder, that results in congenital cutaneous hemangiomas of the skin and gastrointestinal tract. Although asymptomatic, the nevi present as soft, non-mobile, dark blue, compressible papules. Clinically it presents as iron deficiency anemia due to occult gastrointestinal bleeding. Case presentation: A 22-year-old female patient presented with complaints of shortness of breath, fatigue, and palpitation for 2 months. On examination, she had a pale effect and widespread hemangiomas on her lips, hands, and feet. Laboratory results revealed iron deficiency anemia with hemoglobin (Hb) of 2.1 gm/dl and histopathology results of the hemangioma specimen showed angiokeratomas. Based on clinical manifestations and laboratory results, the patient was diagnosed with a case of BRBNS. The patient was transfused with red cell concentrate her symptoms improved but on the first follow-up visit her Hb again dropped to 8.6 mg/dl. Conclusion: A high suspicion of BRBNS diagnosis should be considered if a patient presents with iron deficiency anemia and multiple cutaneous hemangiomas. Further screening should be done to explore internal bleeding and hemangiomas.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".