title: [Clinicopathological study of the fundic varices--blood vessel structure in gastric paries].
abstract: The structures of blood vessels in 18 cases with fundic varices (FV) were studied by injecting gelatin-added barium into varicose vessels of resected specimens. There was no direct connection outside the gastric paries between the inflow path and the outflow path of FV. Just outside the gastric paries, the outflow path was not branched. Blood vessels which formed FV were found in the submucous layer, but not in the lamina propria mucosae. FVs were classified into two types according to the ramification form of FV-forming vessels inside the gastric paries: Type I, with only a few rami observed, and type II, with many rami recognized. In this study, type I FV accounted for about 78%, and type II FV about 22% of 18 cases observed. These findings deserve full consideration in the diagnosis and treatment of FV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine Fukuoka University.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Masuzaki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005748:Gastric Fundus / Q000098:blood supply*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged