Scoping a perforated bleeding peptic ulcer: learning points.
Peptic ulcer perforation and haemorrhage is not unusual as a complication of peptic ulcer disease. In the older patientspresentation can be dramatic and atypical. The authors are presenting a case of duodenal ulcer perforation and haemorrhage which was misdiagnosed as a gastric malignancy and thus failure to have Helicobacter pylori eradication, recurrence with complication and hesitancy in surgical intervention due to initial label of malignancy.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hera General Hospital, Makkah, Western, Saudi Arabia. dr_wani_majid@yahoo.co.in
Abdul Majid
AM
Wani
Waleed Mohd
WM
Hussain
Wail
W
AlMiamini
Amer M
AM
Khoujah
Mohd S
MS
Diari
Mubeena
M
Akhtar
Zeyad S
ZS
Alharbi
D000368:Aged; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010438:Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010439:Peptic Ulcer Perforation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging