Upper digestive bleeding due to rare causes. Diagnosis and treatment
- Author:
Lac Van Bui
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
digestive bleeding
- MeSH:
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage;
diagnosis;
therapeutics;
etiology
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2002;12(1):31-32
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
-
Abstract:
The study introduced 7 medical records of upper digestive bleeding in the Army Central Hospital 108. Bleeding occurred in position that easy to diagnose such as duodenum, esophageal, gastric small curve, etc... the causes of upper digestive bleeding include gastric and duodenal ulceration, gastric cancer, esophageal venous dilatation and rupture in patients with cirrhosis with the increase of portal pressure. Some other causes comprise the malignant lymphoma schawonnome or hepatoma, invasive pancreatic tumor into duodenal. It should have combination of endoscopy with biopsy, ultrasound, CT scanner to precisely diagnose.
