title: [Upper digestive tract bleeding from ulcer with unusual etiology].
abstract: Case report of 40 year old female, admitted in emergency because signs and symptoms of upper digestive tract bleeding. Reappearance of bleeding, during haemodynamic compensation and dramatic installation of a haemorrhagic shock determines the surgical intervention for haemostasis. During surgery we discovered a duodenal ulcer with hypertrophic vessels, penetrating the gallbladder, that in its clinical course eroded the cystic artery. We performed bipolar cholecystectomy; removed the duodenal ulcer with anterior pilorectomy, Burlui antro-duodenostomy with a favorable postoperative course.
authors.affiliation: Clinica II Chirurgie, Spitalul Clinic Judeţean de Urgenţă Craiova.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Calotă
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mănescu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meşină
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Intorcaciu
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vasile
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D004385:Duodenostomy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000098:blood supply*; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome