Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass

We report a case of a 44-year-old male patient who presented with melena and hemodynamic instability. The endoscopic investigation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract was initially negative, but a repeat gastroduodenoscopy revealed a submucosal mass in the lesser curvature of the stomach w...

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Autores principales: Soufidi, Khalida, Laheij, Robert J.F., Monkelbaan, Jan F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24713788
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author Soufidi, Khalida
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description We report a case of a 44-year-old male patient who presented with melena and hemodynamic instability. The endoscopic investigation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract was initially negative, but a repeat gastroduodenoscopy revealed a submucosal mass in the lesser curvature of the stomach with central erosion, primarily perceived as ectopic pancreas, but it was later discovered that it pertained to a gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
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spelling pubmed-39593522014-04-07 Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass Soufidi, Khalida Laheij, Robert J.F. Monkelbaan, Jan F. Ann Gastroenterol Case Report We report a case of a 44-year-old male patient who presented with melena and hemodynamic instability. The endoscopic investigation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract was initially negative, but a repeat gastroduodenoscopy revealed a submucosal mass in the lesser curvature of the stomach with central erosion, primarily perceived as ectopic pancreas, but it was later discovered that it pertained to a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3959352/ /pubmed/24713788 Text en Copyright: © Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass
title Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass
title_full Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass
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title_full_unstemmed Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass
title_short Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass
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