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Massive hemorrhage from proximal gastric vascular ectasias
V Velanovich1, M Harkabus, S Komes
1General Surgery Service, Ireland Army Community Hospital, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA.
The American Surgeon
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
Gastric vascular ectasias are rare lesions of the gastric antrum that may be the cause of iron deficiency anemia in the elderly. We report a case of proximal gastric vascular ectasias in a young man which caused rapidly fatal hemorrhage. This case is instructive because of the patient's youth, the location of the lesions, and the rapidly fatal hemorrhage.