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Pancreatic carcinoma presenting as bleeding from segmental gastric varices: pitfalls in diagnosis
1Surgical Department, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Splenic vein occlusion leading to gastric variceal haemorrhage should be considered in cases of obscure upper gastrointestinal bleeding. We report an unusual case in which the underlying pathology was a resectable carcinoma of the pancreatic tail.