Video Case: Lower Esophageal Crack and Gastric Leiomyoma: Uncommon Causes of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Egypt

Document Type : Images in Infectious and Endemic Diseases

Authors

1 Tropical Medicine Department ,Faculty of Medicine ,Zagazig University ,Zagazig ,Egypt

2 Kafr El Sheikh liver centre, Kafr El Sheikh , Egypt

Abstract

A 62 years old male patient presented by an acute attack of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient gave no history of any chronic medical disease. He then was admitted to the emergency unit of Al-Reyah Hospital (a charity hospital, Biala, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt) and after resuscitation measures an emergency upper GIT endoscopy was done, the source of bleeding was identified as a lower esophageal linear crack while a large gastric smooth mass not yielding on pressure was seen and it seems to be most probably a gastric leiomyoma.

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