Gastric vascular ectasia in children: Case reports
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Gastric antral vascular ectasia. A case report.
A case of vascular lesion of angiodysplastic type in the pyloric part of the stomach has been reported in a patient with chronic viral hepatitis. The diagnosis was made from clinical symptoms, endoscopic and histopathologic findings in the specimens obtained during gastroscopy. Many authors emphasize a correlation between the incidence of "gastric antral vascular ectasia" and liver diseases, es...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista de Gastroenterología de México (English Edition)
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2255-534X
DOI: 10.1016/j.rgmxen.2016.02.002