Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a submucosal gastric mass.
We report a case of a 44-year-old male patient who presented with melena and hemodynamic instability. The endoscopic investigation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract was initially negative, but a repeat gastroduodenoscopy revealed a submucosal mass in the lesser curvature of the stomach with central erosion, primarily perceived as ectopic pancreas, but it was later discovered that it pertained to a gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Center of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Khalida
K
Soufidi
Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Center of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Robert J F
RJ
Laheij
Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Center of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Jan F
JF
Monkelbaan
acute gastrointestinal bleeding; ectopic pancreas; gastrointestinal stromal tumor; melena; submucosal gastric mass