Sonographic detection of intragastric blood clot.
An intragastric blood clot suggested by sonography and later confirmed at upper gastrointestinal series and at gastroscopy is reported. Sonographic findings were a moveable mass within stomach presenting as an arc-like hyperechoic surface with a strong posterior resonance artifact. Compression of the mass with a transducer induced the mass to move from antrum to corpus within stomach. We think that the demonstration of a blood clot within stomach can be suggested on the basis of typical sonographic findings as a secondary sign of a bleeded gastric or duodenal ulcer.
Farin
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Department of Clinical Radiology, Kuopio University Hospital, FIN-70 211 Kuopio, Finland.
Janatuinen
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D000368:Aged; D001777:Blood Coagulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D013270:Stomach / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography