Gastric Glomus Tumor: A Rare Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

A 24-year-old woman was referred to our department because of melena. These symptoms combined with severe anemia prompted us to perform an emergency upper endoscopy, which showed bleeding from an ulcerated 30 mm submucosal tumor in the gastric antrum. A computed tomography scan revealed a homogeneou...

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Published in:Case Rep Surg
Main Authors: Handa, Yoshinori, Kano, Mikihiro, Kaneko, Mayumi, Hirabayashi, Naoki
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678096/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26697255
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/193684
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