Gastric antral vascular ectasia.
A case of gastric antral vascular ectasia confined to the antrum in an elderly Japanese male patient is described. The condition is a cause of blood loss and chronic iron deficiency anemia, particularly in the elderly. The clinical, endoscopic, and pathologic findings, which were contrasted with other hyperplastic or gastric vascular abnormalities, are described.
Tanaka
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T
First Department of Pathology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Mori
Y
Y
Morishita
Y
Y
Kojima
T
T
Kawamori
T
T
Amano
K
K
Ichihara
M
M
Tarao
M
M
Gotoh
A
A
Mori
H
H
D000368:Aged; D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000098:blood supply; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*